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Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice
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In this chapter, the author pays particular attention to Wordsworth’s Thanksgiving Ode and to the accompanying sonnet ‘Intrepid sons of Albion!’, revealing the ways in which these poems address ideas of personal and collective sacrifice. With reference to sermons published in the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Shaw looks at how religious and political rhetoric conspired to convert the shocking toll of victory—an estimated 50,000 dead and wounded—into the compostable soil of national unanimity, and how Wordsworth responded to this communal trauma. For Wordsworth, engagement with national questions of slaughter, sacrifice, and divine providence was inseparable from modes of autobiographical revision.
Title: Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice
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In this chapter, the author pays particular attention to Wordsworth’s Thanksgiving Ode and to the accompanying sonnet ‘Intrepid sons of Albion!’, revealing the ways in which these poems address ideas of personal and collective sacrifice.
With reference to sermons published in the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Shaw looks at how religious and political rhetoric conspired to convert the shocking toll of victory—an estimated 50,000 dead and wounded—into the compostable soil of national unanimity, and how Wordsworth responded to this communal trauma.
For Wordsworth, engagement with national questions of slaughter, sacrifice, and divine providence was inseparable from modes of autobiographical revision.
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