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Wordsworth's Revisionary Aesthetics

Author : Theresa M. Kelley

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 33,73 MB

Release : 1988-03-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0521343984

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This book offers a fresh understanding of the role of aesthetics in Wordsworth's major poetry and prose. Arguing that Wordsworth presents sublimity and beauty as strata in the mind's aesthetic retrieval, Professor Kelley's 1988 text proposes geological precedents for this aesthetic model and evaluates its differences from the models developed by Burke, Kant and Hegel. This study sheds light on Wordworth and Romanticism in several ways. It establishes key differences between his aesthetics and that of Burke, Kant and other predecessors; it offers an insightful understanding of the aesthetic nature of Wordsworth's poetic achievement; and it grounds its close, rhetorical analysis of texts and figures in relevant historical and political contexts.



Language and Relationship in Wordsworth's Writing

Author : Michael Baron

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 26,2 MB

Release : 2014-10-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317898842

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines the variety of his writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period. It discusses many of Wordsworth's later poems, comparing his work with that of his regional contemporaries as well as major writers such as Scott. The key theme of relationship, both between characters within poems and between poet and reader, is explored through Wordsworth's construction of community and his use of power relationships. A serious discussion of the place of sexual feeling in his writing is also included.



Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology

Author : Noah Heringman

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 327 pages

File Size : 28,30 MB

Release : 2011-02-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0801457513

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Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.



A Moment's Monument

Author : Jennifer Ann Wagner

Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 24,40 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780838636305

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Seven chapters take up readings of sonnets by Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, D.G. Rossetti, Hopkins, and, to draw out the implications of this study into our own century, Robert Frost. Close readings of individual Wordsworth sonnets in chapter 1 sketch out a constellation of themes and tropes, as well as a fundamental, revisionary poetic that the very form of the sonnet tropes. Both those tropes and that procedure are problematized and, in some cases, deconstructed by subsequent poets. Far from accepting Wordsworth's visionary claim for the sonnet, this study goes on to show how profoundly those claims were critiqued.



Wordsworth After War

Author : Philip Shaw

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 50,75 MB

Release : 2023-09-30

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1009363182

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A rich, illuminating study of how Wordsworth's late poetry reflects his lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace.



Wordsworth and the Writing of the Nation

Author : James M. Garrett

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 50,17 MB

Release : 2016-02-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1134782063

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Shedding fresh light on Wordsworth's contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet's lifelong attempt to control his literary representation within the context of national ideas of self-determination represented by the national census, national survey, and national museum. Garrett provides historical background on the origins of these three institutions, which were initiated in Britain near the turn of the nineteenth century, and shows how their development converged with Wordsworth's own as a writer. The result is a new narrative for Wordsworth studies that re-integrates the early, middle, and late periods of the poet's career. Detailed critical discussions of Wordsworth's poetry, including works that are not typically accorded significant attention, force us to reconsider the usual view of Wordsworth as a fading middle-aged poet withdrawing into the hills. Rather, Wordsworth's ceaseless reworking of earlier poems and the flurry of new publications between 1814 and 1820 reveal Wordsworth as an engaged public figure attempting to 'write the nation' and position himself as the nation's poet.



Wordsworth's Poems of Travel 1819-1842

Author : J. Wyatt

Publisher : Springer

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 21,48 MB

Release : 1999-06-03

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230286216

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There is a long-held view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. This book opposes that view by examining the substantial body of poetry written after his fiftieth year. The argument is that, in order to appreciate this work, much of which was inspired by itineraries in Britain and in Europe, we have to read the poems as they were first published. By adopting the perspective of the contemporary reader, Wordsworth's grand design can be appreciated.



Preromanticism

Author : Marshall Brown

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 516 pages

File Size : 15,65 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780804722117

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Using an outmoded term in an entirely new way, Preromanticism seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in foreshadowings of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Featuring readings of masterpieces in all genres that draw widely on recent innovations in literary theory, it highlights the variety of experimentation in a transitional epoch.



Romantic Poetry

Author : Karl Kroeber

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 38,29 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9780813520100

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This anthology fills the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of the most important contemporary writings on the English romantic poets. During the 1980s, many theoretical innovations in literary study swept academic criticism. Many of these approaches--from deconstructive, new historicist, and feminist perspectives--used romantic texts as primary examples and altered radically the ways in which we read. Other major changes have occurred in textual studies, dramatically transforming the works of these poets. The world of English romantic poetry has certainly changed, and Romantic Poetry keeps pace with those changes. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff have organized the book by poet--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, and Keats--and have included essays representative of key critical approaches to each poet's work. In addition to their excellent general introduction, the editors have provided brief, helpful forewords to each essay, showing how it reflects current approaches to its subject. The book also has an extensive bibliography sure to serve as an important research aid. Students on all levels will find this book invaluable.



The Persistence of Romanticism

Author : Richard Eldridge

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 21,8 MB

Release : 2001-02-05

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780521804813

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This volume, first published in 2001, argues that Romantic thought remains central to both artistic work and philosophical understanding.