Author: D.D. DevlinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349033391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Wordsworth and the Poetry of Epitaphs
Author: D.D. DevlinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349033391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The English Poetic Epitaph
Author: Joshua ScodelPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801424823
Category : Death in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.
Wordsworth and the Poetry of Epitaphs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780064916790
Category : Death in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Essay on Epitaphs
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140389258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
WORDSWORTH AND THE POETRY OF EPITAPHS.
Author: J.P. WARDThe Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...: Inscriptions.-Selections from Chaucer modernised.-Poems referring to the period of old age.-Epitaphs and elegiac pieces.-Ode: Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood.-The prelude; or, Growth of a poet's mind
Author: William WordsworthPoetry as Epitaph
Author: Karen Mills-CourtsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807116579
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the disseminative forces of representation. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
"Transmuting Sorrow"
Author: Sharon McGradyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This study examines the ways in which nineteenth-century readers experienced Wordsworth's poetry as wisdom literature--ways of reading the poetry which have been largely lost in the twenty-first century. Considered as disciples, these men and women of letters had lifelong relationships with the poet and poetry which paralleled Wordsworth's own ritual of returning to the text and to the consecrated place in nature. By examining the reading practices of these Wordsworthians in the light of interpretive methods dating back to monastic readers, I show how such practices went hand in glove with the poet's epitaphic aesthetic. Wordsworth's theory of poetry derives from his "Essays Upon Epitaphs" which privilege the sympathetic relationship of the epitaph writer to the deceased and to the mourning survivors. I trace the evolution of this aesthetic in Wordsworth's poetry through his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, considered as the poet's own epitaph, and through his turn to the frugality and rigid lines of the sonnet as the form most conducive to fulfilling his prophetic duty in later years. I follow this aesthetic as poetic persona and readers enact the sincerity between epitaph writer and mourners in a mutually sympathetic relationship. This bond between writer and reader assisted in transforming suffering into an attractive if unattainable ideal which yet inspired readers to social duty. I use psychoanalytic theory to show how the persona modeled the "transmutation" of sorrow for readers by ordering the mind and cultivating self-forgiveness by means of this ideal. The ritual of reading and revising sorrows which incorporated the persona's mental discipline importantly depended on the "counter-spirit" or deconstructive quality inherent in language which has its analogue in the cycles of renovation and decay in nature. This instability of language contributed to an ambiguity at the heart of Wordsworth's poetry which opened up a range of possible interpretations. Depending on the individual, such ambiguity made it possible for nineteenth-century readers to apply the poetry to their lives methodically, both as an aid to mourning and to religious reflection.
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthWilliam 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.