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- Title
Pilgrimage to Waterloo: Lake Poets and the Duke.
- Authors
Andrews, Stuart
- Abstract
Southey's 2000-line poem, The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, was published two centuries ago, in 1816. It does not offer a narrative of the battle, but rather reflections on war - prompted by a visit to the battlefield. Yet in another sense, Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth all made a pilgrimage to Waterloo in their changing assessment of Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, starting with his involvement in Spain's Guerra de la Independencia - Britain's Peninsular War. Elsewhere I have addressed the Lake Poets' enduring commitment to the libertarian cause of the Spanish and Portuguese peoples - a decade after all three had supposedly abandoned their youthful liberal principles. This article draws on the Lake Poets' poetry, polemical prose and correspondence in order to trace their shifting judgments on the Duke from his part in the notorious Convention of Cintra (1808) to his victory at Waterloo seven years later.
- Subjects
POET'S Pilgrimage to Waterloo, The (Poem); SOUTHEY, Robert, 1774-1843; WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852; COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; WORDSWORTH, William, 1770-1850; POETS laureate; HISTORY
- Publication
Romanticism, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1354-991X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/rom.2017.0306