Re-enactment and Romanticism: Wordsworth, Southey, and R.G. Collingwood's An Autobiography (1939).

Wordsworth called The Prelude 'the history of a Poet's mind'. But what, this essay asks, is the weight of the word 'history' here? Does a poem 'enshrining ... the spirit of the Past / For future restoration' match R.G. Collingwood's demanding mid-twentieth-century account of history as 're-enactment...

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Published in:	Romanticism Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 197 - 214
Main Author:	Duggett, Tom
Format:	Article
Published:	Edinburgh University Press Jul2025
Subjects:	Literary criticism Conceptual history Historicism Thought experiments Autobiography
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost