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Matthew Rainbow Hale

Measuring Time in a Blissful Dawn: William Wordsworth and American Newspapers during the French Revolution

In The Prelude, English poet William Wordsworth—who spent extended time in France during the 1790s—recounted his enthrallment with the French Revolution. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive," reads a passage from Book Ten. "But to be young was very heaven! O times . . . When Reason...

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