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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... language of men 4 'In single or in social eminence'? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere Forced hopes and proud rebellion The world of all of us 5 'By conflicting passions pressed': 'Michael' and 'Simon Lee' The ...
... language of work and property; but it also undercuts or displaces itself, as in its propensity for the vocabulary of idleness and vagrancy. Even when the private moment is the apparent outcome of these narrative anxieties, it is a ...
... language of ordinary men in a state of vivid sensation. Part of this study must then be taken up with expounding the nature and coherence of those ideas, and of the polemical framework within which they make sense. To take up this task ...
... language that renders them objects of public inspection and subjects of public concern. The significantly historical aspect of the Wordsworthian selfhood does not then so much reside in its coherence as in its incoherence. He was ...
... language seems culture-specific to a particularly high degree. It seems most plausible, at this early stage in the science of genetics, to assume that what we bring into the world is the capacity for language; and that it will be ...
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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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