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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... importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the ... important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth ...
... important insights and perspectives. I owe a very great debt to my colleague Wallace Douglas, whose unpublished dissertation on the social and economic features of Wordsworth's Lakeland environment deserves greater recognition than it ...
... important 'transitional' stage in his career. It was intended as a major public statement, a long poem addressing topics of great public concern. Obviously, it must figure significantly in any study such as mine, as must The Prelude and ...
... important), we live in a 'theoretical' time. If this commitment to theory has assumed a hegemonic form – a shifting form, it must be said – then it is one often characterized by an aspiration toward totality; something that can ...
... importance. Hartman's thesis is constantly cited as the one primarily responsible for taking the poet out of history ... important qualification of the traditionally positive or celebratory reading of that relation. My aim here is not to ...
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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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