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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... reader for Methuen made careful and pertinent suggestions that have, I hope, improved the final version of this manuscript. Jeffrey Robinson also gave generously of his time and concentration. It is a pleasure to thank the staff of the ...
... readers, and Wordsworth was unsure of both. Even as he hoped to appeal to the common sympathies of all readers, he argued, at times obscurely but nevertheless coherently, that the habits of mind necessary for the full comprehension of ...
... reading of Wordsworth. In my second chapter I take that risk in order to make clear that a hitherto unnoticed coherence is there; but it seldom emerges in the forms of sustained arguments or achieved aesthetic wholes, whether in prose ...
... readers of Romantic poetry will be vigilant in their expectation of the Miltonic dimension, a dimension that is in no sense covert or embarrassed when it is as clearly and literally invoked as it often is. Now, there may be a certain ...
... in such a way as to invite a critical response without quite demanding it. This is one of the formal manifestations of Wordsworth's ideological openness or insecurity. Even as he asks his readers to make their own tales, as he does.
Inhalt
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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