02506nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10490680 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110425s2011 vtu sb 001 0deng d 2011015328 9781409427056 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781409427063 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)749264299 e-uk-en PR5892.S58 B35 2011eb 821/.7 22 Bailey, Quentin, 1972- Wordsworth's vagrants [electronic resource] : police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s / by Quentin Bailey. Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011. 230 p. British literature in context in the long eighteenth century Includes bibliographical references and index. Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed' -- A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england -- 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795 -- A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems -- 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers -- 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering -- 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads -- 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge -- Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation. Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Political and social views. Literature and society England History 18th century. English poetry 18th century History and criticism. Social change in literature. Prisons in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. British literature in context in the long eighteenth century. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10490680 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 127254 127254