to a decline in the poet’s work that he was unable to recover from. An examination of the so-called “Revolution books” of The Prelude, IX, X and XI, will show that, far from being an author who’s “political theories sit loose upon him, and may be changed like his clothes” (ibid, 34), Wordsworth’s seemingly abrupt political defection resulted from an internal and conflicting depression caused by utter disillusionment with the violence of the French Revolution, a depression he referred to as “the crisis…
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