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Article: Wordsworth, Joseph Johnson, and the Salisbury Plain poems.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)
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- March 22, 2009
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In December, 1792, on his return from France, Wordsworth brought the manuscripts of An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches to Joseph Johnson for publication. Johnson was a respected, successful and well-known liberal publisher, friendly to authors who supported religious dissent, parliamentary reform, and the French Revolution, including many that Wordsworth admired: William Godwin, Mary Woll-stonecraft, and Coleridge. Seeing liberal sentiments in the poems, Johnson agreed to publish them. Wordsworth would continue to think of Johnson as his publisher until 1799; Johnson, however, did not seem to think much of Wordsworth after 1793. He published Wordsworth's poems ...