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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... us 5 'By conflicting passions pressed': 'Michael' and 'Simon Lee' of property The poet as patron 79 79 97 108 108 121 The poetry 140 141 149 160 162 175 Poets, paupers and peripatetics: the politics of Table of Contents.
... poet of 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 ...
... poet of private experience, he is hardly known at all as moralist and political economist. To say that he held 'views ... poetic and theoretical language, has meant that we do not yet have in place a proper understanding of the integrity ...
... poet of self-consciousness, writing out at once his impressions, and his impressions of his impressions. By this critical imaging of the poetic subjectivity (and his own), he allows for the articulation and objectification of those ...
... poet's declared intentions, but neither can we ignore them entirely. Poetic language, partly by virtue of its standing outside the constraints of conventional exchange, where gesture, intonation and avowed context 6 Wordsworth's ...
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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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