TY - BOOK AU - Bailey,Quentin ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Wordsworth's vagrants: police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s T2 - British literature in context in the long eighteenth century AV - PR5892.S58 B35 2011eb U1 - 821/.7 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Wordsworth, William, KW - Literature and society KW - England KW - History KW - 18th century KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Social change in literature KW - Prisons in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10490680 ER -