Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Get Book Here
Book Description
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow Romantics changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. But his was also a revolutionary life in the old sense of the word, insofar as his art was of memory, the return of the past, the circling back to childhood and youth. This beautifully written biography is purposefully fragmentary, momentary, and selective, opening up what Wordsworth called "the hiding-places of my power."
Author: Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214650
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Get Book Here
Book Description
The drama of consciousness and maturation in the growth of a poet's mind is traced from Wordsworth's earliest poems to The Excursion of 1814. Mr. Hartman follows Wordsworth's growth into self-consciousness, his realization of the autonomy of the spirit, and his turning back to nature. The apocalyptic bias is brought out, perhaps for the first time since Bradley's Oxford Lectures, and without slighting in any way his greatness as a nature poet. Rather, a dialectical relation is established between his visionary temper and the slow and vacillating growth of the humanized or sympathetic imagination. Mr. Hartman presents a phenomenology of the mind with important bearings on the Romantic movement as a whole and as confirmation of Wordsworth's crucial position in the history of English poetry. Mr. Hartman is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. "A most distinguished book, subtle, penetrating, profound."—Rene Wellek. "If it is the purpose of criticism to illuminate, to evaluate, and to send the reader back to the text for a fresh reading, Hartman has succeeded in establishing the grounds for such a renewal of appreciation of Wordsworth."—Donald Weeks, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Author: K. Hanley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230288138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Get Book Here
Book Description
Wordsworth: A Poet's History examines the range of Wordsworth's poetry and criticism over the course of his career. It examines the writer and his works against the backdrop of revolutionary history, public, personal as well as political. The study foregrounds the ways in which Wordsworth's account of 'self-representation in poetic language' coils around and recoils from the linguistic traumas excited by the French Revolution. The book also examines Wordsworth's patriotism and the evolution of this as demonstrated in his poetry.
Author: Rosanna Negrotti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Get Book Here
Book Description
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is universally recognized as the greatest poet of his age. His poems are almost religious in their celebration of nature's beauty, and his verse has a soaring, lyrical quality which is as seductive as it is readable. No special knowledge or appreciation is needed to enjoy Wordsworth: he wrote for everyone. Much of his best work is included in this beautiful book.
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: David Simpson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317620321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Get Book Here
Book Description
Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’.
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Lobster Press
ISBN: 9781897073254
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Get Book Here
Book Description
"The classic Wordsworth poem is depicted in vibrant illustrations, perfect for pint-sized poetry fans."
Author: David Bromwich
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Get Book Here
Book Description
PrefaceIntroduction 1: Alienation and Belonging to Humanity 2: Political Justice in The Borderers 3: The French Revolution and "Tintern Abbey" 4: Moral Relations in the Preface and Two Ballads 5: The Trial of Individuality 6: Historical Catastrophe and Personal Memory Conclusion Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Alan Liu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804718936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Keith Hanley
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333918838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Get Book Here
Book Description
"The range of Keith Hanley's study leads him to various chapters beyond Lacanian psycholinguistics and literary Oedipalism to historicise Wordsworth's peculiar kind of control in terms of the theory of Michel Foucault. His book also engages with current discussions on the Romantic Gothic, Feminist Romantic criticism, the semiotics of Revolution, and Walter Benjamin's critique of the Modern."--BOOK JACKET.
