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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... lurking within the very poems that seem to want to avoid them. The following study makes no attempt to deal with all of these topics, but rather pursues a thematic argument that seeks to explore Introduction: writing in history and theory.
... seeks to show that Wordsworth set out to address some conscious and urgent 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 ...
... seek to demonstrate that they do constitute such a major strategy, one that holds together a number of otherwise disconnected gestures; but it must be traced in the forms of its displacement, as much in its radical incoherence as in its ...
... given some sense of the general questions that this study seeks to explore, as well as of the methodological assumptions that I am making. I hope that these assumptions will be seen to be inductively sensitive, rather.
... seeks to put them together by locating the argument at a level that is perhaps best described as that of the historical unconscious. I share McGann's sense of the empirical locus of the phenomenon of displacement, though I detect in his ...
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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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