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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... whole may be determined by innate rather than contingent factors thus becomes impossible even to formulate clearly when it is postulated that the self as we know it is always a composite organism (phenotype) in which both these forces ...
... whole, and fail to set the one against the other. Wordsworth's poetry does include a spiritual, organicist aspiration; but this too has to be set within a material history. If he was himself never the tranquil sage of popular reputation ...
... whole' of Wordsworth. Indeed it does not, for reasons that will be apparent already. But it does claim to be a serious interpretation of some poems, and one that could be extended to others, even as it might be qualified by new evidence ...
... whole range of the above terms is of course implicated in the approach taken in this study; but I wished to avoid a vocabulary that has been already reified within and between various theoretical traditions. Perhaps 'alienation' comes ...
... whole' than I think it is. To make the Wordsworthian subjectivity so efficient in its avoidance of uncomfortable social pressures is to present yet another version of an organically coherent personality, this time held together not by ...
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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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