In what terms did Wordsworth describe the French Revolution? He said he was “thrilled with joy” at the prospect of “human nature seeming born again.”
Who was with Wordsworth on his way to France?
In notes that he dictated to his friend Isabella Fenwick in 1843, when he was in his 70s, Wordsworth said that the poem was ‘Composed on the roof of a coach, on my way to France’.
Who opposed the French Revolution?
France. The word “counter-revolutionary” originally referred to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution, such as Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald or, later, Charles Maurras, the founder of the Action française monarchist movement.