Author: Arthur Beatty
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Joseph Fawcett
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Arthur Beatty
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021078261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book explores the connection between Sun Tzu's ancient military treatise, The Art of War, and the early development of the Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. Joseph Fawcett delves into the parallel strategies of war and poetry, providing a fascinating look into the mind of one of the greatest literary figures of the 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Quentin Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782276
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From his work on the Salisbury Plain poems through to the poetry about vagrants, beggars, and lunatics in Lyrical Ballads, Quentin Bailey argues, Wordsworth attempted to imagine a way of relating to the vagrant and criminal poor that could challenge the systematizing impulses of William Pitt and Jeremy Bentham. Whereas writers had previously relied on sensibility and fellow-feeling to reveal the correct ordering of society, Wordsworth was writing in a period in which legislators, magistrates, and commentators agreed that a more aggressively interventionist approach and new institutional solutions were needed to tackle criminality and establish a disciplined and obedient workforce. Wordsworth's interest in individual psychology and solitude, Bailey suggests, grew out of his specific awareness of the Bloody Code and the discussions surrounding it. His study offers a way of reading Wordsworth's poetry that is sensitive to his early radicalism but which does not equate socio-political engagement solely with support for the French Revolution.

Author: Gillian Russell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137474319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This volume argues for the enduring and pervasive significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. Showing how war throws into question conventional disciplinary parameters and periodization, essays in the collection consider how war shapes culture through its multiple, divergent, and productive traces.

Author: Mary A. Favret
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400831555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today. Favret examines wartime literature and art as varied as meditations on the Iliad, the history of meteorology, landscape painting in India, and popular poetry in newspapers and periodicals; she locates the embedded sense of war and dislocation in works ranging from Austen, Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Woolf, Stevens, and Sebald; and she contemplates how literature provides the public with methods for responding to violent calamities happening elsewhere. Bringing to light Romanticism's legacy in reflections on modern warfare, this book shows that war's absent presence affects home in deep and irrevocable ways.

Author: Emile Legouis
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Émile Hyacinthe Legouis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: John Rieder
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination.

Author: University of Wisconsin. Department of English
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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