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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... course to say nothing new, but I shall argue a much stronger case: that his writings contain a sophisticated (if often implicit) reformulation of the traditional defence of civic or public virtue against the dangerous effects of a ...
... course produce univocity among speakers in common cultural slots: Wordsworth does not write the same language, exactly speaking, as Blake or Coleridge. But when we look closely, we must realize that at the most specific level there is ...
... course, has been busy recovering some of the less evident references that the poem makes, or fails to make. As a result it seems likely that its argumentative identity, its status as a 'finished' piece, will also be revised. Having ...
... course not a fair summary of all criticism in the Marxist tradition, nor is it intended as such.1 But it does describe a strong tendency within that tradition, a tendency perhaps all the more powerful for a generation that is so clearly ...
... course set against the aspiration toward wholeness) in Wordsworth.2 At the same time, there are many differences between the two writers. What they share, I suspect, is a common sensitivity to the predicament of the bourgeois experience ...
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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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