Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals): The Poetry of DisplacementRoutledge, 07.08.2014 - 252 Seiten Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’. |
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... elements of the personality that are intersubjective; that is, his genius enables him to discover for his personal anxieties the very language that renders them objects of public inspection and subjects of public concern. The ...
... element of pertaining to is preserved. Even visionary epiphany experienced as a desired extinction of the social self, is given life and thought by what it replaces and what it returns to. I hope I have given some sense of the general ...
... element in language is, as I have said, not just a 'context' – something that we may, if we choose, advert to as a means of asserting the relevance or timeliness of art – but an integral part of the medium, and an inescapable part of ...
... elements of their language; neither can be usefully discussed without the recognition of the other. The complexity that I try to address, and that requires such an obsessive commitment to detail, is not then that of 'poetry', or art ...
... elements of an ideological debate, rather than descriptively accurate concepts. When Wordsworth, in the poem 'Alice Fell', uses the word 'relief' to describe an individual's emotional state, does he consciously intend to invoke the ...
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the case against urban life | |
Another guide to the lakes | |
In single or in social eminence? The political economy of The Prelude | |
The world of all of | |
Michael and Simon Lee | |
the politics of sympathy | |
The Excursion | |
The star of eve was wanting | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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