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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... human nature makes constant reference to limiting or enabling conditions of time and place. As the Wordsworthian imagination is thus social, and defined even in its isolation by its relation to others, so it is also historical, defined ...
... human and geographical. This model of determination affects the imagination of the poet and that of his readers, and Wordsworth was unsure of both. Even as he hoped to appeal to the common sympathies of all readers, he argued, at times ...
... human experience. These details were not just concepts or tropes for Wordsworth; they were the discursive formulations within which he seems to have described his everyday life, within which he expressed his experiences. If this process ...
... human behaviour, such as sexuality and aggression, are highly contested and unclear. To adjudicate how much of each is determined by genetic or cultural forces is to venture into a region where hard science and political persuasion can ...
... deal of variability in the conditions that appear to have affected the coming into being of poetic language, has nothing to do with the traditional literary—critical celebration of some mythologized 'human' complexity Introduction 15.
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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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