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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... 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 ...
... labour, and whether the writing of poetry could ever be considered a respectable form of such; and about achievement — about finishing things (for himself) and displaying them as products (for the approbation of others). These are ...
... with great precision and density, the terms of the syndrome that I intend to examine. Wordsworth's anxieties about poetry, property and labour, and the relations between them, are 8 Wordsworth's Historical Imagination.
... labour. The mistake occurs, however, when we take the part for the 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 ...
... labour, property, industry, urbanization, civic virtue and so forth. Ultimately, none of them seems as accurate as the humbler word 'displacement'. The whole range of the above terms is of course implicated in the approach taken in this ...
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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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