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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... suggested, at least, that to commit oneself to language is to move further into the realm of intersubjective behaviour than is the case with many other forms of action. Sex and aggression are also open to explanation in historical ...
... suggest the necessary imperfection of such moments of inspection are themselves part of the programme of Wordsworth's poetry, and they too are implicated within a historical–ideological syndrome. Wordsworth is thus the poet of ...
... as within the more embattled prophecies of various forms of idealism or objectivism. My suggestion is that, if we want to discover something about how intersubjective 2 motives operate in language, we had best do away.
... suggest, understood by the poet's own writings. Hartman sees in Wordsworth a problem of reification resulting from the apocalyptic imagination's tendency to produce 'a too-human or super-human image, and so fix the person to one ...
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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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