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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... evidence. But I have found it most productive of insight to regard the Wordsworthian subjectivity as a particular medium (and entity) that was, by virtue of its openness to the energies of language and experience, extraordinarily ...
... evidence about the other themes – the ones I am largely concerned with here. These themes, despite the existence of a considerable body of criticism, have not yet had their share of close attention. Careful understanding of them might ...
... evidence. This calls for some preliminary discussion. Writing this book has helped me to understand how Wordsworth might have felt about The Recluse, for my original fantasy was to produce a comprehensive account of the political ...
... evidence that comes from a poet's own explanations; and even these are not definitive. What remains is the sense that the public signification of 'relief' provides some coherent interpretative potential for the poem, enough to assure us ...
... evidence for a creative personality that is outside or beyond material determination; but it is in fact in the small details of everyday life, as well as in its major tragedies and epiphanies, that the individual orientation toward 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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