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Author : Rowan Boyson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107023307
The surprising idea of pleasure as communal provides a new way of understanding Wordsworth's poetry and the Enlightenment's critical legacy.
Author : Alan Bewell
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300043937
The first really thoroughgoing study of the subject. Both a fresh Wordsworth and, for Romanticists, a new 'anthropological' Enlightenment emerge from this book.-James K. Chandler
Author : Rowan Boyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 1139840304
Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than selfish, and she focuses particularly on this approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure. Through close reading of Enlightenment and Romantic texts, in particular the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth, Boyson elaborates on this central theme. Covering a wide range of texts by philosophers, theorists and creative writers from over the centuries, she presents a strong defence of the Enlightenment ideal of pleasure, drawing out its rich political, as well as intellectual and aesthetic, implications.
Author : James Robert Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Anecdotes
ISBN : 0813942209
"This volume is both a formal study of the anecdote's properties and possibilities and an inquiry into the anecdote's intellectual function in Enlightenment culture. The author contends that anecdotes acted in Enlightenment writing as mediators between the incidents of human life and the laws of human nature, connecting the abstractions of philosophical reflection with lived experience. Successive chapters take a specific genre (the essay), a single writer (David Hume), a historical event (the Endeavour voyage), and a literary project (the Lyrical Ballads) as nets for collecting anecdotes. Each chapter is committed to the particularities of individual anecdotes and the specificities of the uses to which these anecdotes were put. However, the book also outlines a larger historical narrative in which the anecdote moves from a central place in the science of human nature to holding a particular place in poetry, even as the anecdote began to lose its currency in the emerging human sciences"--
Author : J. Labbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230306141
What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve? This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation of the 'Wordsworthian', through literary analysis and historical contextualizing of their writings.
Author : David P. Haney
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271040615
Author : Jana Brueske
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656329596
Essay aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The topic of nature and how it was treated in poetry is one of the most discussed questions when talking about the period of Romanticism. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor were contemporaries and many critics say, that both share many parallels in their lives as Romantic poets as well as in their private lives; others although claim „that the two men destroyed each other as writers“ (Ulmer, 190). They were the founders of a newfound sensibility in writing, because they turned away from the traditional style of poetry. Instead, especially Wordsworth, introduced a poetic expression that was much more based on simplicity and conventionality using the language of nature (cf. McKusick, 4). This is meant as a language, which is understandable by everybody because it is closer to the common language at that time, but also meant nature as a motif in poetry. Without these two authors it would be hard to understand and comprehend the period of Romanticism.
Author : Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599643
This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice. A range of authors agreed that poems can provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist impulse—exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth—is to overcome the temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful home in matter. The spiritualist impulse—driving eighteenth-century verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young—is to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment, and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.
Author : Richard Gravil,Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199662128
This volume features 48 original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism.
Author : Richard E. Matlak
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874138159
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 : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : English poetry
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU58511431
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691086621
One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series. "Exhilaratingly thought-provoking".--"Times London".
Author : Mark Offord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107155589
This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's poetry, combining concepts of travel, 'states of nature' and language.
Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801881870
Geoffrey Hartman has had a profound impact on 20th century literary theory. This collection of 16 essays reflects on Hartman's work, providing a wide-ranging perspective on recent approaches to Romanticism.
Author : Richard Gravil,Daniel Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191019647
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.