The Global Wordsworth

Author : Katherine Bergren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480142

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The Global Wordsworth by Katherine Bergren Pdf

The Global Wordsworth charts the travels of William Wordsworth’s poetry around the English-speaking world. But, as Katherine Bergren shows, Wordsworth’s afterlives reveal more than his influence on other writers; his appearances in novels and essays from the antebellum U.S. to post-Apartheid South Africa change how we understand a poet we think we know. Bergren analyzes writers like Jamaica Kincaid, J. M. Coetzee, and Lydia Maria Child who plant Wordsworth in their own writing and bring him to life in places and times far from his own—and then record what happens. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Bergren highlights a more complex dynamic of international response, in which later writers engage Wordsworth in conversations about slavery and gardening, education and daffodils, landscapes and national belonging. His global reception—critical, appreciative, and ambivalent—inspires us to see that Wordsworth was concerned not just with local, English landscapes and people, but also with their changing place in a rapidly globalizing world. This study demonstrates that Wordsworth is not tangential but rather crucial to our understanding of Global Romanticism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521369886

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Wordsworth: The Prelude by Stephen Gill Pdf

Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives.

Author : G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1853263958

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The Wordsworth Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain by G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville Pdf

Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly written overview of British monarchs from Cerdic, First King of Wessex, to George VI, is an invaluable guide to the regal chronology of Britain, and contains many insights into the foibles of one of the world's most interesting and resilient constitutional monarchies - through the vagaries of war, pestilence, regicide, civil wars and marriage.

Author : Frances H. Kakugawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Individuality
ISBN : 0974267201

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Wordsworth the Poet by Frances H. Kakugawa Pdf

Ages 4-8. The beautifully illustrated children's book tells the story of Wordsworth, a misunderstood mouse whose love of poetry set him apart from the others. Everyone in the Hawaiian rainforest makes fun of Wordsworth and his 'silly' poetry. But when a big thunderstorm darkens the forest for days on end, he takes pen in hand and shows the other mice how poetry can save the day.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781782437161

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Wordsworth by William Wordsworth Pdf

William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the 'Lake Poets'. Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early revolutionary fervor imbued his verse and his ideals. Much of Wordsworth's work was inspired by nature, but to a style rich in lyrical imagery he brought a deep interest in liberal humanitarianism and a profound concern for the lives, habits and speech of ordinary people, especially country people. This collection includes: 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' ('Daffodils'), 'Ode. Intimations of Immortality', 'Character of the Happy Warrior', 'The Solitary Reaper', 'To a Sky-Lark', 'Tintern Abbey', and extracts from 'The Prelude'.

Author : Richard E. Matlak
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874138159

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Deep Distresses by Richard E. Matlak Pdf

Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become related through the intercession of the poet's patron, Sir George Beaumont, who attempts to ameliorate the family tragedy with money and his painting of Pecl Castle in a Storm, while hoping to groom Wordsworth for a place among the cultural elite of London. In its attention to nineteenth-century culture and business, this study offers an entirely new context for reading and re-interpreting many of Wordsworth's major works from Michael through the major lyrics of Poems in Two Volumes and the latter books of The Prelude. Richard E. Matlak is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.

Author : Alexander Freer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599032

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Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure by Alexander Freer Pdf

Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions. As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.

Author : Various
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840220562

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The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories by Various Pdf

A superb collection of some of the greatest tales of the genre; many are classics while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from the vintage era of the supernatural.

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000004301796

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Washington Irving's Life of Mohammed by Washington Irving Pdf

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528789387

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The Book of Nature by William Wordsworth Pdf

The Book of Nature - Wordsworth's Poetry on Nature is a sublime collection of the best nature poetry by poet-laureate William Wordsworth, housed in a convenient pocket-sized edition. Along with many other Romantic poets of the time, the theme of nature features heavily in the work of Wordsworth - to him, it represented a living thing, a sublime teacher-god that contained all beauty and divine truth. Wordsworth expresses his view on the natural world through the poetry in this charming collection while articulating his relationship with nature and its essential connection with human beings. Poems featured in this collection include: - Influence of Natural Objects - Lines Written in Early Spring - My Heart Leaps Up - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - To the Clouds Carefully curated by Read & Co. Books, this collection of twenty-one poems also features an introductory excerpt on William Wordsworth by Thomas Carlyle from his 1881 work Reminiscences. The perfect gift for poetry readers and nature lovers alike, this beautiful pocket edition is a wonderful book of posey for those who love reading on the go.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0199536864

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The Major Works by William Wordsworth Pdf

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655

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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth Pdf

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840221305

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The Plays by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

The plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social, religious, and rhetorical binds within which they are confined.