The Cambridge Introduction To William Wordsworth

Author : Emma Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139491631

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The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth by Emma Mason Pdf

William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this Introduction offers students ways to understand and enjoy Wordsworth's poetry and his role in the development of Romanticism in Britain. Emma Mason offers a completely up-to-date summary of criticism on Wordsworth from the Romantics to the present and an annotated guide to further reading. With definitions of technical terms and close readings of individual poems, Wordsworth's experiments with form are fully explained. This concise book is the ideal starting point for studying Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and the major poems as well as Wordsworth's lesser known writings.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521646812

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The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth by Stephen Gill Pdf

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Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769068

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The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber Pdf

An engaging guide to reading, understanding and enjoying Romantic verse, designed for students approaching the period for the first time.

Author : Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521007577

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 by Thomas Keymer,Jon Mee Pdf

This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

Author : John Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139788748

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The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by John Worthen Pdf

Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel', and co-author with Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the great writers and thinkers of the Romantic revolution. This innovative introduction discusses his interest in language and his extraordinary private notebooks, as well as his poems, his literary criticism and his biography. John Worthen presents a range of readings of Coleridge's work, along with biographical context and historical background. Discussion of Coleridge's notebooks alongside his poems illuminates this rich material and finds it a way into his creativity. Readers are invited to see Coleridge as an immensely self-aware, witty and charismatic writer who, although damaged by an opium habit, responded to and in his turn influenced the literary, political, religious and scientific thinking of his time.

Author : Sally Bushell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108416320

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The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads' by Sally Bushell Pdf

This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.

Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521874342

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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Julien Rawson Pdf

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107376861

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The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry by Michael Ferber Pdf

The best way to learn about Romantic poetry is to plunge in and read a few Romantic poems. This book guides the new reader through this experience, focusing on canonical authors - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Blake and Shelley - whilst also including less familiar figures as well. Each chapter explains the history and development of a genre or sets out an important context for the poetry, with a wealth of practical examples. Michael Ferber emphasizes connections between poets as they responded to each other and to great literary, social and historical changes around them. A unique appendix resolves most difficulties new readers of works from this period might face: unfamiliar words, unusual word order, the subjunctive mood and meter. This enjoyable and stimulating book is an ideal introduction to some of the most powerful and pleasing poems in the English language, written in one of the greatest periods in English poetry.

Author : Jeffrey Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837613

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William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic by Jeffrey Cox Pdf

Comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664545

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Selected Poems by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495165

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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment by Timothy Clark Pdf

The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.

Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521883061

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The Cambridge History of English Poetry by Michael O'Neill Pdf

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028418

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William Wordsworth in Context by Andrew Bennett Pdf

This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

Author : Adam Potkay
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421417028

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Wordsworth's Ethics by Adam Potkay Pdf

A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.

Author : John Sitter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139502467

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The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Sitter Pdf

For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.