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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... seems to be engaged in an obfuscation of or falling from the positions that his polemic, as previously explained, would seem to entail. While being very clear about what is wrong with the world, one might say, he is very unclear about ...
... seems to have described his everyday life, within which he expressed his experiences. If this process at times clearly depended upon a high level of false consciousness, then there were other times when it did not. It is indeed in the ...
... seems culture-specific to a particularly high degree. It seems most plausible, at this early stage in the science of genetics, to assume that what we bring into the world is the capacity for language; and that it will be developed in ...
... seem to emerge with the passing of time. Most famously, the later Wordsworth is construed with some justice as a more ... seems to occupy, the element of pertaining to is preserved. Even visionary epiphany experienced as a desired ...
... seems likely that canons are going to be forming and reforming for some time to come. The history of this process is worth analysing, but such analysis is another project and not a task that can be undertaken here. Matthew Arnold faced ...
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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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