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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... figure in the Wordsworthian psyche; but such a universalizing approach does little to explain satisfactorily the complex level at which Paradise Lost functions in Wordsworth's writing as the major setting-forth of the cultural and ...
... figures of Satan, Adam and Messiah is then one prominent example of the degree to which the poet's subjectivity is not a thing made and finished, a bold front for or against things as they were, but a medium constantly open to patterns ...
... figure significantly in any study such as mine, as must The Prelude and Home at Grasmere. The case for a detailed attention to Wordsworth's prose will already be clear; we have to understand the integrity of his case against the ...
... figures, for example, in Geoffrey Hartman's account (e.g. 1977, xix, 64, 65), where it describes a condition of the psychological self with disruptive formal and aesthetic consequences. Much more centrally it is deployed by Jerome ...
... figure of the times whose politics are very difficult to unravel, that he 'cannot be said to have produced any ... figures, or the slavery debate, or the condition of Ireland; not sonnets, odes or blank verse. This does not make them ...
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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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