Abstract
The political situation in Britain during the 1790s receives scant attention in any version of The Prelude, especially when we consider the thousands of lines devoted in the 1805 and 1850 versions of the text to events occurring at the same time across the Channel. The one brief commentary on the conservatives who dominated British government during this decade attributes this omission not to indifference to domestic conditions but rather to the poet’s still almost uncontrollable rage over them. In the 1805 Prelude, the narrator claims “this is passion over near ourselves, / Reality too close and too intense” (X.640–1). He adds:KeywordsMoral JudgmentFrench RevolutionImaginative PowerEarly BookHabeas CorpusThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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