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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... a treatise, taken together with literary criticism's institutional reluctance to examine the historical energies of both poetic and theoretical language, has meant that we do not yet have in place a proper understanding of.
The Poetry of Displacement David Simpson. do not yet have in place a proper understanding of the integrity and scope of Wordsworth's case against what he saw as the course of English society. In this particular blindness we have all been ...
... understanding of them might indeed have the effect of reopening the casebook on some of the more familiar 'good' poems. The 'Tintern Abbey' poem, for example, is sometimes understood and much more often received as a masterpiece. But ...
... understanding of how the general features of a historical moment register upon a particular consciousness, and form its language. Without such an understanding, we will be left with some vague model of the Zeitgeist as somehow able to ...
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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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