Wordsworth's Trauma and Poetry: 1793-1803

By: Matlak, Richard E.

This study reads the Poet's reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032624159
• ISBN13: 9781032624150
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"