The Perfect Match: Wordsworth's 'The Triad' and Coleridge's 'Garden of Boccacio' in Context

Of Wordsworth, Stephen Gill has maintained that 'One need not subscribe to "Romantic" notions about the ideal conditions for production of poetry--suffering, solitude, imaginative possession, and so on--to see that during the fifth decade of Wordsworth's life many factors were wo...

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Published inRomantic textualities no. 15
Main Author Furr, Derek
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cardiff Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, ENCAP 01.01.2005
Subjects
British & Irish literature
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
English literature
Poetry
Poets
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
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Summary:Of Wordsworth, Stephen Gill has maintained that 'One need not subscribe to "Romantic" notions about the ideal conditions for production of poetry--suffering, solitude, imaginative possession, and so on--to see that during the fifth decade of Wordsworth's life many factors were working against it [writing poetry]', including family worries, poor health, 'social life' and 'enjoyment of fame'.
ISSN:1748-0116