Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s
by
Quentin Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From his work on the Salisbury Plain poems through...