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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... hope are some of the best parts of what follows. I am also grateful to Rodney Baines, John Barrell, Clifford Darby, Sarah Maza, W.J.T. Mitchell and Regina Schwartz for various important insights and perspectives. I owe a very great debt ...
... hope I have given some sense of the general questions that this study seeks to explore, as well as of the methodological assumptions that I am making. I hope that these assumptions will be seen to be inductively sensitive, rather.
... hope, less to do with the Casaubon syndrome – the conventional pedantic inability to see the wood for the trees – than with what I have come to see as the nature of the critical task facing poetic language as a medium existing in ...
... hope I have explained why a materialist literary criticism should beware of committing itself to an all-embracing theory, and why I have chosen to write about such a small number of poems. If I have laboured the point, then my excuse ...
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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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