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Article Name :
IMPACT OF ROUSSEAU AND GODWIN ON WORDSWORTH: FROM REVOLUTION TO REVISION
Author Name :
Kapil Kumar Gupta
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ROR-2050
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Abstract :
William Wordsworth came under the influence of the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and supported the French Revolution for its high ideals of equality, liberty and fraternity as given by Rousseau in his Social Contract. However, Wordsworth soon got disillusioned with the French Revolution after seeing unmindful bloodshed all around during the Reign of Terror in France. He found himself without hope and in a dull state of mind. He was now in search of something that could bring him out of dejection. Incidentally he came under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy as propounded in the latter’s Political Justice. He found a temporary relief in the rational philosophy of Godwin but it could not hold sway over Wordsworth for long as both of them were temperamentally different from each other—one being a man of emotion, while the other being a man of reason.
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