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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... 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 ...
... nature The real language of men 4 'In single or in social eminence'? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere Forced hopes and proud rebellion The world of all of us 5 'By conflicting passions pressed': 'Michael' and ...
... nature and of solitude. Nature and solitude, it is often said, are the primary sources of the Wordsworthian imagination and the creative energies of his mind and heart. This imagination has thus passed into the tradition as an ...
... nature or that of mind to body, or self. This study seeks to show that Wordsworth set out to address some conscious and urgent questions to his contemporaries about the critical issues of his times. The private resolutions that so many ...
... nature and balance of work and leisure, are coherently worked into his negative analysis of the uncreative forms of thought and perception expressed in an incrementally alienating language. The fact that Wordsworth's argument is never ...
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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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