Author: Alan GrobPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Wordsworth's Moral Universe
Author: Alan GrobWordsworth's Ethics
Author: Adam PotkayPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421417022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.
Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay. Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Professing Sincerity
Author: Susan B. RosenbaumPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.
What Good Are the Arts?
Author: John CareyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199735972
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Do the arts make us better people? Why should "high" art be thought higher than "low"? In the first part of this spirited polemic, Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes a provocative case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.
William Wordsworth in Context
Author: Andrew BennettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Hardy's Geography
Author: R. PitePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Hardy's Geography reconsiders a familiar element in Hardy's novels: their use of place and, specifically, of Dorset. Hardy said his Wessex was a 'partly real, partly dream-country'. This study examines how reality and dream interact in his work. Should we look for a real place corresponding to Casterbridge? What is the relation between one person's feelings for a place and society's view of it. Pite concludes that Hardy addresses these issues through a distinctive regional awareness.
Wordsworth
Author: John Alan TurnerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349181226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Long and Winding Road from Blake to the Beatles
Author: M. SchneiderPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230613179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book traces the musical and cultural achievements of this contemporary musical phenomenon to its origin in the Romantic revolution of the 1790's in England when traditional concepts of literature, politics, education and social relationships were challenged as they were in the 1960's.