Author: Annabel Newton
Publisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Gary Lee Harrison
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814324813
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform that swept the social, political, and cultural landscape in England during the 1790s. In Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse, Gary Harrison argues that although Wordsworth's poetry is implicated in an ideology that idealizes rustic poverty, it nonetheless invests the image of the rural poor with a certain, if ambiguously realized, power. The early poems challenge the complacency of middle-class readers by constructing a mirror in which they confront the possibility of their own impoverishment (both economic and moral), and by investing the marginal poor with a sense of dignity and morality otherwise denied them.

Author: Linden Peach
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349167983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Author: Tim Fulford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521888484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This book explains how complex relationships between Britons, Native Americans and Anglo-Americans shaped eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture.

Author: Daniel Robinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441150609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Daniel Robinson provides a comprehensive guide to studying Wordsworth at undergraduate level.

Author: Gay Wilson Allen
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814311585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Selections from 39 critics.

Author: Gary Schmidgall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199374422
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Walt Whitman burst onto the literary stage raring for a fight with his transatlantic forebears. With the unmetered and unrhymed long lines of Leaves of Grass, he blithely forsook "the old models" declaring that "poems distilled from other poems will probably pass away." In a self-authored but unsigned review of the inaugural 1855 edition, Whitman boasted that its influence-free author "makes no allusions to books or writers; their spirits do not seem to have touched him." There was more than a hint here of a party-crasher's bravado or a new-comer's anxiety about being perceived as derivative. But the giants of British literature were too well established in America to be toppled by Whitman's patronizing "that wonderful little island," he called England-or his frequent assertions that Old World literature was non grata on American soil. As Gary Schmidgall demonstrates, the American bard's manuscripts, letters, prose criticism, and private conversations all reveal that Whitman's negotiation with the literary "big fellows" across the Atlantic was much more nuanced and contradictory than might be supposed. His hostile posture also changed over the decades as the gymnastic rebel transformed into Good Gray Poet, though even late in life he could still crow that his masterwork Leaves of Grass "is an iconoclasm, it starts out to shatter the idols of porcelain." Containing Multitudes explores Whitman's often uneasy embrace of five members of the British literary pantheon: Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Blake, and Wordsworth (five others are treated more briefly: Scott, Carlyle, Tennyson, Wilde, and Swinburne). It also considers how the arcs of their creative careers are often similar to the arc of Whitman's own fifty years of poem-making. Finally, it seeks to illuminate the sometimes striking affinities between the views of these authors and Whitman on human nature and society. Though he was loath to admit it, these authors anticipated much that we now see as quintessentially Whitmanic.

Author: James D. Hart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385504155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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