Wordsworth's Trauma and Poetry: 1793-1803

By Richard E. Matlak

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367715422
• ISBN13: 9780367715427
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"