Author: Matthew ArnoldPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Selections from Matthew Arnold's Poetry
Author: Matthew ArnoldBrowning and Wordsworth
Author: John Haydn BakerPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640388
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.
The Patriotic Poetry of William Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
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Category : Patriotic poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Wordsworth: The Prelude
Author: Stephen GillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521369886
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives.
Poems of William Wordsworth
Author: William Wordsworth“The” Works of Matthew Arnold
Author: Matthew ArnoldWordsworth and the Writing of the Nation
Author: James M. GarrettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Shedding fresh light on Wordsworth's contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet's lifelong attempt to control his literary representation within the context of national ideas of self-determination represented by the national census, national survey, and national museum. Garrett provides historical background on the origins of these three institutions, which were initiated in Britain near the turn of the nineteenth century, and shows how their development converged with Wordsworth's own as a writer. The result is a new narrative for Wordsworth studies that re-integrates the early, middle, and late periods of the poet's career. Detailed critical discussions of Wordsworth's poetry, including works that are not typically accorded significant attention, force us to reconsider the usual view of Wordsworth as a fading middle-aged poet withdrawing into the hills. Rather, Wordsworth's ceaseless reworking of earlier poems and the flurry of new publications between 1814 and 1820 reveal Wordsworth as an engaged public figure attempting to 'write the nation' and position himself as the nation's poet.
Poems of Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth
Author: Robert M. RyanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191074667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth is a study of the cultural connections between two of the nineteenth century's most influential figures, Charles Darwin and William Wordsworth. When Darwin presented On the Origin of Species, his reading public's affective response to the natural world had already been profoundly influenced by William Wordsworth. Wordsworth presented nature as benign, harmonious, a source of moral inspiration and spiritual blessing, and a medium through which one might enter into communion with the Divine. Long after his death, he continued to be revered throughout the English-speaking world, not only as a great poet, but as a theologian with a broader following than any prelate and an appeal that transcended or ignored sectarian differences. For believers and sceptics alike, Wordsworth's poetry offered a readily accessible and intellectually respectable counterweight to Darwin's vision of a material universe evolving by fixed laws in which Divinity played no discernible role and where concepts like beauty and harmony were material conditions to be explained in scientific terms. Wordsworth's theology of nature became for many readers a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy, but it also provided an enriching context for the reception of evolutionary theory, aiding theists in their effort to reach an accommodation with the new science. As the nineteenth century's two most prominent theoreticians of nature's life, Wordsworth and Darwin competed for attention among those seeking to understand humanity's relationship with the natural world, and their disciples engaged in a productive, mutually transformative dialogue in which the poet's cultural authority influenced the way Darwin was received, and Darwinian science adjusted interpretation and evaluation of the poetry. Charles Darwin and the Church of William Wordsworth explores the broad cultural relationship between Wordsworth, Darwin, and their disciples, contextualising them within wider discussions about the relationship between religion and science in the nineteenth century.
Author: Alfred Austin