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Author: Rodney Jones Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 129187528X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
In "A Letter to a friend of Robert Burns," Wordsworth wrote ""And, of poets more especially, it is true - that, if their works be good, they contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being comprehended and relished."" While it is improbable that this assertion was true when he wrote it in 1816, it is certainly not the case for readers of his poetry today. The historical context in which his poetry was written - and which is often reflected in the poems themselves - is, in many respects, little known to today's students of the romantic period, nor to those who simply enjoy reading Wordsworth's poetry. This set of books seeks to remedy that deficiency by providing much needed contextual information. This first volume is set against the background of Wordsworth's life from his birth at Cockermouth in 1770 until his return from Germany in the Spring of 1799. Two subsequent volumes will cover his life in Grasmere and at Rydal Mount respectively.
Author: Rodney Jones Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 129187528X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
Book Description
In "A Letter to a friend of Robert Burns," Wordsworth wrote ""And, of poets more especially, it is true - that, if their works be good, they contain within themselves all that is necessary to their being comprehended and relished."" While it is improbable that this assertion was true when he wrote it in 1816, it is certainly not the case for readers of his poetry today. The historical context in which his poetry was written - and which is often reflected in the poems themselves - is, in many respects, little known to today's students of the romantic period, nor to those who simply enjoy reading Wordsworth's poetry. This set of books seeks to remedy that deficiency by providing much needed contextual information. This first volume is set against the background of Wordsworth's life from his birth at Cockermouth in 1770 until his return from Germany in the Spring of 1799. Two subsequent volumes will cover his life in Grasmere and at Rydal Mount respectively.
Author: Richard Gravil Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks ISBN: 1847601855 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 233
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A selection of keynote lectures and conference papers from the prestigious 2010 Wordsworth Summer Conference. Contains 1. Simon Bainbridge, 'The Power of Hills': Romantic Mountaineering; 2. Peter Spratley, Wordsworth's Walking Aesthetic; 3. Gary Harrison, The Poetics of Acknowledgment: John Clare; 4. James Castell, The Society of Birds in Home at Grasmere; 5. Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, 'Kubla Khan' and Orientalism: The Roads to and from Xanadu; 6. Saeko Yoshikawa, Wordsworth in the Guides; 7. Daniel Robinson, Mary Robinson and the Della Crusca Network; 8. Erica McAlpine, Keats's Might: Subjunctive Verbs in the Late Poems; 9. Fay Yao, 'Old Romance' and New Narrators: A Reading of Keats's 'Isabella' and 'The Eve of St Agnes'; 10. Anthony John Harding, The Fate of Reading in the Regency; 11. Ken Johnston, Wordsworth at Forty: Memoirs of a Lost Generation; 12. Richard Gravil, Is The Excursion a 'metrical Novel?'; 13. Seamus Perry, Wordsworth's Pluralism.
Author: Richard Gravil Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks ISBN: 1847601928 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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This collection of essays includes Stephen Gill on Wordsworth's 'revisitings', Ann Wroe on Shelley's famous pamphlet, 'The Necessity of Atheism', Mary Favret on the cultural practice of 'The General Fast and Humiliation' in war-time, Gregory Leadbetter on Wordsworth's 'Lucy Poems', Daniel Robinson on Wordsworth's sonnets and newspaper verse, Mark J Bruhn and Jacob Risinger on aspects of Wordsworths's thought, Jessica Fay on Wordsworth and hermitude, Matthew Rowney on Wordsworth's peripatetics, Madeleine Callaghan on Shelley's Idealism, Monika Class on Coleridge and the once reputable 'science' of Phrenology, Stacey McDowell on Keats's play 'Otho the Great', Felicity James on Mary Hays and the life-writing of religious Dissent, and Richard Gravil on John Thelwall's hitherto unknown analysis of the prosody of Wordsworth's 'Excursion'.
Author: R. Jarvis Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230371361 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing. Robin Jarvis here reconstructs the scene of walking, both in Britain and on the Continent, in the 1790s, and analyses the mentality and motives of the early pedestrian traveller. He then discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of major Romantic writers, focusing especially on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, Hazlitt and Hunt. In readings which engage current debates around literature and travel, landscape aesthetics, ecocriticism, the poetics of gender, and the materiality of Romantic discourse, Jarvis demonstrates how walking became not only a powerful means of self-enfranchisement but also the focus of restless textual energies.
Author: J. Thompson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137016604 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 539
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In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
Author: John Hughes Publisher: Apollo Books ISBN: 9781845194420 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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Offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of their work. The author also draws on themes of ethical subjectivity in the work of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze to provide essential reading for those involved in nineteenth-century literature.
Author: Robin Jarvis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312175313 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 246
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Argues that much Romantic literature stemmed from the rise of pedestrian touring and the popularization of recreational walking in the last quarter of the 18th century. Jarvis (U. of the West of England) reconstructs the walking scene in Britain and on the Continent in the 1790s, analyzing the mentality and motives of the early pedestrian traveller. He then discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of major romantic writers, focusing especially on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare, Keats, Hazlitt, and Hunt. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Author: Richard Gravil Publisher: Oxford Handbooks ISBN: 0199662126 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 897
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
Author: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 1800859481 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 242
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"Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, the prospect of extinction) as attitudes toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who, like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic art of poetry compatible with "the very language of men" and, therefore, relevant to a new class of readers. Moreover, as a model, ballet was visible as well as valuable. Dance historians recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its practitioners in the nineteenth century, and 'The Pointe of the Pen' challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett Browning."--taken from back cover.
Author: Richard Gravil Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1847603459 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 422
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Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, the most comprehensive critical study of the poet since the 1960s, presents the poet as balladist, sonneteer, minstrel, elegist, prophet of nature, and national bard. The book argues that Wordsworth's uniquely various oeuvre is unified by his sense of bardic vocation. Like Walt Whitman or the bards of Cumbria, Wordsworth sees himself as 'the people's remembrancer'. Like them, he sings of nature and endurance, laments the fallen, fosters national independence and liberty. His task is to reconcile in one society 'the living and the dead' and to nurture both 'the people' and 'the kind'. Review Comment: 'This erudite exposition, profligate with its ideas ... succeeds as few others have done in apprehending Wordsworth's career holistically, incorporating all its diversities and apparent inconsistencies into a unified vision. It justifies fully the notion proposed by Hughes and Heaney that he was England's last national poet.' - Duncan Wu, Review of English Studies
Author: Rodney Jones
Author: Rodney Jones
Author: Richard Gravil
Author: Richard Gravil
Author: R. Jarvis
Author: J. Thompson
Author: John Hughes
Author: Robin Jarvis
Author: Richard Gravil
Author: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
Author: Richard Gravil