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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... example, the presence of Milton in Wordsworth's writing, a presence about which I shall have much to say in what follows. Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman, in particular, have made sure that all readers of Romantic poetry will be ...
... example of the degree to which the poet's subjectivity is not a thing made and finished, a bold front for or against things as they were, but a medium constantly open to patterns of deconstruction and reconstruction. Moments of sheer ...
... example, the poet too much affirmeth, and it is in the hyperbole itself that we must look for alternative clues to the poem's allusions. It would be hard to bring forward a poetic ego that occupies a greater range of positions than ...
... example, is sometimes understood and much more often received as a masterpiece. But very few students or critics who read it as such have been able to explain exactly how the many eminently memorable passages hang together and amount to ...
... examples, as well as within the more embattled prophecies of various forms of idealism or objectivism. My suggestion is ... example, found in Swift many of the features of instability, incoherence and occasionality that I here discover ...
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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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