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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... Coleridge's revisionary magic, most obviously of his rewriting and negation of Wordsworth's ideas about the exemplary value of the language of ordinary men in a state of vivid sensation. Part of this study must then be taken up with ...
... Coleridge. But when we look closely, we must realize that at the most specific level there is no totally common cultural slot. Biographical experience remains to a degree genuinely individual, both genetically and phenotypically. It is ...
... Coleridge. But 'Gipsies' has hardly been noticed, except with embarrassment, by even the most dedicated readers, and 'Alice Fell' and 'Beggars' are not much better known. My decision to begin this study with a detailed reading of ...
... Coleridge, and further assisted by John Stuart Mill's contention that the best of Wordsworth has 'no connexion with struggle or imperfection' and teaches the 'permanent happiness of tranquil contemplation' (1969, 89), Arnold produced a ...
... Coleridge, or Keats, responded differently to pressures very similar to those felt by Wordsworth. Culture is only ever composed of subcultures, none of them able to claim discursive comprehensiveness even as some are more powerful than ...
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1 Gipsies | 22 |
the case against urban life | 56 |
3 Another guide to the lakes | 79 |
4 In single or in social eminence? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere | 108 |
Michael and Simon Lee | 140 |
the politics of sympathy | 160 |
The Excursion | 185 |
The star of eve was wanting | 209 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 236 |
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