Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Wordsworth & Reed
Author: William WordsworthThe Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
Author: Stephen GillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. The volume ensures that students will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.
The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805
Author: William A. UlmerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791489663
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy. In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798–1805, William A. Ulmer challenges this consensus by arguing that Wordsworth never abandoned his faith in a supernatural Deity and that the poet's theism included important Christian sympathies as early as 1798. By tracing the changes in Wordsworth's religious beliefs—from the early secular period to the later Anglican period—Ulmer reconstructs the strategic indirections by which the poet's faith shapes his major poems. In readings of The Ruined Cottage, the Pedlar narrative, "Tintern Abbey," the Prospectus, the Ode, The Prelude, and other texts, Ulmer presents a poet increasingly determined to stage the prophetic revelations of his poems against carefully established Christian backgrounds. Through this revisionary traditionalism, Wordsworth attempts to preserve England's Christian heritage by adapting it to modern needs. Revisionary in its own right, Ulmer's book provides an innovative perspective on Romantic natural supernaturalism and on William Wordsworth's religious poetics and intellectual development.
Wordsworth and His Circle
Author: David Watson RanniePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: Wordsworth in Early American Criticism
Author: Annabel NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799
Author: Duncan WuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521416000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth Volume 1
Author: W J B OwenPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847600778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Volume 1 of The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, as edited by W J B Owen and Jane W Smyser. This is a print version of the new, searchable, navigable, electronic edition of this standard work. Compared with the original Clarendon edition, this one has two advantages: textual notes are more clearly separated and are columnized; and the existence of editorial commentary is indicated by marginal symbols in the text (in the ebook, of course, these symbols are hyperlinked to the commentary). While colour is used in the preview, as in the ebook, the print in the paperback is black and white. The Contents include Wordsworth's famous poetical manifesto, the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads', his Jacobinical defence of political terror in 'A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff; and an impassioned intervention in the peninsular wars, protesting at British betrayal of Portuguese and Spanish allies at the Convention of Cintra.
The Ecclesiastical Sonnets of William Wordsworth
Author: Abbie Findlay PottsWordsworth's Second Nature
Author: James ChandlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226100812
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major works–in The Prelude, above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the discussion, which restores Wordsworth to both the French and English contexts in which he matured, is a consideration of his relation to Rousseau and Burke. Chandler maintains that by the time Wordsworth set forth his "program for poetry" in 1798, he had turned away from the Rousseauist idea of nature that had informed his early republican writings. He had already become a poet of what Burke called "second nature"–human nature cultivated by custom, habit, and tradition–and an opponent of the quest for first principles that his friend Coleridge could not forsake. In his analysis of the poetry, Chandler suggests that even Wordsworth's most apparently private moments, the lyrical "spots of time," ideologically embodied the uncalculated habits of an oral narrative discipline and a native English mind.