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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... poem, as enacted by Satan, Adam and Messiah. Satan and Messiah are mutually constituting antitypes – reference to one invokes awareness of the other as cause and consequence in the cycle of damnation and redemption – and Adam is caught ...
... poem's allusions. It would be hard to bring forward a poetic ego that occupies a greater range of positions than Wordsworth's. At times he celebrates an aesthetic of amorphous undecidability, 'alive to all things and forgetting all' (LB ...
... poem of Wordsworth's lifetime, and it was written at an 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 ...
... poem. Poems that do resolve themselves into formally harmonious structures are interesting indeed, and for that very fact; they give us clues about those themes or questions that Wordsworth does appear to have been able to fashion into ...
... poem of affirmation, it may well come to appear as a poem of negation. And so on. Many readers celebrate the 'Immortality' ode without quite knowing why; here, we need to appreciate the precision of the poet's vagueness. My point is not ...
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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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