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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... questions to his contemporaries about the critical issues of his times. The private resolutions that so many of his poems seem to propose had a recognizable public import, against which privacy became variously a triumph and a defeat ...
... question of the degree to which subjectivity as a whole may be determined by innate rather than contingent factors thus becomes impossible even to formulate clearly when it is postulated that the self as we know it is always a composite ...
... question the nature and possibility of doctrinally coherent positions; in 'Gipsies', for example, the poet too much ... questions that this study seeks to explore, as well as of the methodological assumptions that I am making. I hope ...
... questions that Wordsworth does appear to have been able to fashion into finished or untroubled statements. Poems that do not achieve such 'resolution' are interesting for their evidence about the other themes – the ones I am largely ...
... by definition expands upon or questions things as they were, or as they have been said to be by historians. The belief that there is such a complexity is especially strong in the British tradition of literary criticism, which.
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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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