This study reads the Poet's reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier.
Author: RICHARD E. MATLAK |
Publisher: Routledge |
Publication Date: Jul 11, 2024 |
Number of Pages: NA pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Hardcover |
ISBN-10: 0367715422 |
ISBN-13: 9780367715427 |