John Wesley's mission: steering a course between sound and spurious enthusiasm -- Restraining strategies: seeking a balance between emotion and reason in Wesleyan discourse -- Divided feelings on Methodist enthusiasm: Southey and Coleridge's debate...
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John Wesley's mission: steering a course between sound and spurious enthusiasm -- Restraining strategies: seeking a balance between emotion and reason in Wesleyan discourse -- Divided feelings on Methodist enthusiasm: Southey and Coleridge's debate -- Wordsworth's early exposure to Methodist enthusiasm -- Common missions in Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical ballads and John Wesley's preface to the Methodist hymns -- Literary dissent: the 'Common voice' in Wordsworth's Lyrical ballads -- Evangelical style and sentiment in the Excursion and Peter Bell -- William Hazlitt's 'Gusto' and enthusiasm -- Conclusion -- The broader picture