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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... 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 ...
... to. I hope I have 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.
... seen at work in 'Gipsies' they may be traced elsewhere in the 1807 Poems, and beyond. Given the range of Wordsworth's poetry, and the sheer amount of it, it seems likely that canons are going to be forming and reforming for some time to ...
... seen fit to constitute itself as the 'central' discipline within the humanities, able to adjudicate the limitations of historians, philosophers, anthropologists and others by reference to something thought of as 'truth to life'. Such an ...
... seen to characterize the writings of various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. To erect these patterns into indiscriminately and irresistably powerful causal syndromes that extinguish and overwhelm all idiosyncratic energies ...
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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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