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Wordsworth, Louis-Philippe, and "England in 1940!"(English poet William Wordsworth's views on post-Napoleonic France)
From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20020701
Author:Hill, Alan G.
Poet William Wordsworth expressed his wariness towards the post-Napoleonic government of France in a pamphlet entitled "England in 1940." The pamphlet includes several nationalistic poems and prose that warns his fellow Englishmen to beware of continuing expansionist drive of the French government under Louis-Phillippe.
A forgotten pamphlet of 1840, which carries an oblique warning to Wordsworth's countrymen to look to their defences in the uncertain climate of post-Napoleonic France, offers a convenient pretext for exploring the poet's wider views on French politics in his later years, ...
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