Reading Wordsworth

Author : J.H. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208877

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Reading Wordsworth by J.H. Alexander Pdf

First published in 1987, this book is written for those who are encountering Wordsworth for the first time and for those familiar with his works that are at a loss to understand his reputation or why his work has impressed them. The strength of the author’s approach is that it unravels the poet’s true meaning and the process by which he all too frequently lost the voice of inspiration — working and reshaping his poems until the original freshness disappeared. It concentrates on helping the reader appreciate Wordsworth’s distinctive and daring way with words and poetic structure. By showing Wordsworth’s failures, the author demonstrates by contrast the achievements of his greatest works.

Author : Brian G. Caraher
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271040653

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Wordsworth's Slumber and the Problematics of Reading by Brian G. Caraher Pdf

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521496748

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Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 by Duncan Wu Pdf

A comprehensive 1996 listing of authors and books read by William Wordsworth during the years of his greatest poetry.

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521416009

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Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799 by Duncan Wu Pdf

A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192551283

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William Wordsworth by Stephen Gill Pdf

In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life—1770 to 1850—tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.

Author : Brian G. Caraher
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271026243

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Wordsworth's Slumber and the Problematics of Reading by Brian G. Caraher Pdf

A critical study of the interpretive problems surrounding readings of one of Wordsworth's best-known lyrics. Wordsworth's "Slumber" and the Problematics of Reading engages in detail both the nature and the implications of what can be called literary pragmatics. It offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's "A slumber did my spirit seal" as well as "Strange fits of passion" and "She dwelt among untrodden ways," making a major contribution to an ongoing interpretive debate concerning the first poem and the theoretical issues to which is gives rise. It also provides new ways to contextualize Wordsworth's so-called Lucy poems as well as Coleridge's appropriations of them in 1799. Caraher analyzes solipsism and strange fantasies of death as they surface in readings of Wordsworth's lyric and provides critical examinations of the rhetoric, assumptions, and evidences of reading on the part of many of Wordsworth's most famous critics. He then makes a strong case for the theoretical viability of the work of John Dewey and Stephen Pepper for the field of literary studies, especially for theories of literary reading, theories of evidence, and the logic of literary inquiry. Caraher's identification of the "problematic" of Wordsworth's poem gives direction to a powerful inquiry into the poem's meanings, its reader's judgments, and its culture's pathologies. He makes a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion concerning pragmatism in literary studies and to the understanding of Wordsworth and the theory of reading.

Author : J.H. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317208860

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Reading Wordsworth by J.H. Alexander Pdf

First published in 1987, this book is written for those who are encountering Wordsworth for the first time and for those familiar with his works that are at a loss to understand his reputation or why his work has impressed them. The strength of the author’s approach is that it unravels the poet’s true meaning and the process by which he all too frequently lost the voice of inspiration — working and reshaping his poems until the original freshness disappeared. It concentrates on helping the reader appreciate Wordsworth’s distinctive and daring way with words and poetic structure. By showing Wordsworth’s failures, the author demonstrates by contrast the achievements of his greatest works.

Author : Scott Hess
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813932309

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William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship by Scott Hess Pdf

In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship" a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite--factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.

Author : Michael Baron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317898849

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Language and Relationship in Wordsworth's Writing by Michael Baron Pdf

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines the variety of his writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period. It discusses many of Wordsworth's later poems, comparing his work with that of his regional contemporaries as well as major writers such as Scott. The key theme of relationship, both between characters within poems and between poet and reader, is explored through Wordsworth's construction of community and his use of power relationships. A serious discussion of the place of sexual feeling in his writing is also included.

Author : Daniel Robinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441145871

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William Wordsworth's Poetry by Daniel Robinson Pdf

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Author : Theresa M. Kelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521343985

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Wordsworth's Revisionary Aesthetics by Theresa M. Kelley Pdf

This book offers a fresh understanding of the role of aesthetics in Wordsworth's major poetry and prose. Arguing that Wordsworth presents sublimity and beauty as strata in the mind's aesthetic retrieval, Professor Kelley's 1988 text proposes geological precedents for this aesthetic model and evaluates its differences from the models developed by Burke, Kant and Hegel. This study sheds light on Wordworth and Romanticism in several ways. It establishes key differences between his aesthetics and that of Burke, Kant and other predecessors; it offers an insightful understanding of the aesthetic nature of Wordsworth's poetic achievement; and it grounds its close, rhetorical analysis of texts and figures in relevant historical and political contexts.

Author : Thomas Jayne Thomas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474436908

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Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth by Thomas Jayne Thomas Pdf

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing of the earlier poet's words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson's poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised. Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson's career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson's poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.Key FeaturesFirst book-length study of Tennyson's poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson's poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300228915

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Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate Pdf

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 : J. Wyatt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230286214

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Wordsworth's Poems of Travel 1819-1842 by J. Wyatt Pdf

There is a long-held view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. This book opposes that view by examining the substantial body of poetry written after his fiftieth year. The argument is that, in order to appreciate this work, much of which was inspired by itineraries in Britain and in Europe, we have to read the poems as they were first published. By adopting the perspective of the contemporary reader, Wordsworth's grand design can be appreciated.

Author : Willard Spiegelman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520053656

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Wordsworth's Heroes by Willard Spiegelman Pdf