Poet William Wordsworth expressed his wariness towards the post-Napoleonic government of France in a pamphlet entitled "England in 1940." The pamphlet includes several nationalistic poems and prose that warns his fellow Englishmen to beware of continuing expansionist drive of the French government under Louis-Phillippe.
A forgotten pamphlet of 1840, which carries an oblique warning to Wordsworth's countrymen to look to their defences in the uncertain climate of post-Napoleonic France, offers ...