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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... precise events and circumstances: the French Revolution, the condition of England, the plight of the poor, and so forth. He selects, that is to say, a historical subject matter, the details of which often appear lurking within the very ...
... precision and density, the terms of the syndrome that I intend to examine. Wordsworth's anxieties about poetry, property and labour, and the relations between them, are here set forth in sophisticated detail, and they are the leading ...
... precision of the poet's vagueness. My point is not that we will thereby convert good into less good or bad poems, or vice versa, but that we will come to see such terms as useless for anything but an appeal to unexamined standards of ...
... precise features of a historical moment. This is of course not a fair summary of all criticism in the Marxist tradition, nor is it intended as such. But it does describe 1 a strong tendency within that tradition, a tendency perhaps all ...
... precise about where subjectivity begins and intersubjectivity ends; the very terms come to seem like elements of an ideological debate, rather than descriptively accurate concepts. When Wordsworth, in the poem 'Alice Fell', uses the ...
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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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