Wordsworth Summer Conference: John Gardner on ‘Wordsworth’s Sites of Massacre'

Professor John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University) reflects on his Wordsworth Summer Conference keynote lecture, ‘Wordsworth’s Sites of Massacre’. In this conference Q&A with Amanda Blake Davis, Professor Gardner discusses the second-generation Romantics’ reactions to Wordsworth’s depictions of war and violence, and the effects of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre upon the poets’ thoughts.