Research Guides: Wordsworth, William: Critical Articles

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Wordsworth, Southey, and the English Church
Compare and contrast of Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets with Southey's Book of the Church.
Superstition, the national imaginary, and religious politics in Wordsworth's ecclesiastical sketches
This article focuses on the superstition structures in William Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical Sketches," which expresses the author's anxiety over the social threat of Catholic Emancipation and his attraction to the remains of Great Britain's Catholic period. It notes that the book is engaged with the Catholic Questions through a historical narrative about the church property and the national landscape, which was agitated in Parliament. Moreover, Wordsworth's positive approach to Catholicism attempted to bring the British imagined community back to the political, aesthetic, and spiritual middle way of the 1688 Glorious Revolution.

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