Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

Richard E. Matlak is professor emeritus from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod, MA, where he engages in community service, social and athletic activities, scholarship, travel, and family events. He has published five books: Approaches to Teaching Coleridge's Poetry and Prose, Contributing Editor (1991); British Literature: 1780-1830, Co-editor with Anne K. Mellor (1996); The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 (1997); Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth – John Wordsworth – Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808 (2003); and William Wordsworth: Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), Editor (2016). He also established with Lisa Villa the CrossWorks website "The Berth of the Abergavenny, East Indiaman" http://crossworks.holycross.edu/spcol/

• ContentsIllustrations Preface Chapter One Wordsworth’s Trauma: October 1793 Chapter Two French Heroes and a Poet Recluse, 1795 Chapter Three Beaupuy and Godwin in The Borderers, 1796 Chapter Four “The Discharged Soldier” of Alfoxden, 1798 Chapter Five Revolutionary Foreboding in the Spots of Time, 1799 Chapter Six Finding a Home at Grasmere, 1800 Chapter Seven Making Amends, Abroad and at Home, 1802 Chapter Eight A Poet-Soldier: “October 1803” Bibliography