Author : S. Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230283349
This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107028418
This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
Author : Rowan Boyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317319656
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393616924
The most accessible edition of Wordsworth’s poetry and prose, prepared to meet the needs of both students and scholars. This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth’s poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the author’s evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages. “Criticism” collects thirty responses to Wordsworth’s poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Karen Swann, Michael O’Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems.
Author : Rowan Boyson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139851764
Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significance. Rowan Boyson reminds us that philosophers of the Enlightenment, unlike modern thinkers, often represented pleasure as shared rather than selfish, and she focuses particularly on this approach to the philosophy and theory of pleasure. Through close reading of Enlightenment and Romantic texts, in particular the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth, Boyson elaborates on this central theme. Covering a wide range of texts by philosophers, theorists and creative writers from over the centuries, she presents a strong defence of the Enlightenment ideal of pleasure, drawing out its rich political, as well as intellectual and aesthetic, implications.
Author : Sally Bushell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108416322
This accessible collection of essays provides an essential introduction to the volume of poetry that defined British Romanticism.
Author : Brennan O'Donnell
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1995
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780873385107
This is a study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. It provides a detailed treatment of what Wordsworth calls the innumerable minutiae that the art of the poet depends upon and of the broader vision to which these minutiae contribute.
Author : John Killham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2024-10-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1040186254
First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published in periodicals and written by renowned critics of Tennyson’s work. The books discusses important themes like Tennyson in temporal contexts; Tennyson in artistic contexts; a study of the Hesperides; study of Demeter and Persephone; Tennyson’s 'Ulysses'; Tennyson’s Maud and Tennyson’s Idylls. This is a must read for scholars of English poetry and English literature.
Author : Herbert Grierson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472509013
This famous work was the result of the wartime collaboration of two Scottish scholars. Their tracing of the course of English poetry has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as a 'volume of masterly compression'. They deliberately spend most time on the greatest poets, believing that, significant as traditions and influences are, the great poet himself affects the spirit of his age and moulds the tradition he has inherited. At the same time, enough attention is paid to minor poets to make the book historically complete, and to fill in the most important links in the chain of poetic development. Thus Gower is here, as well as Chaucer; Patmore, as well as Browning. Both in scope and in detail A Critical History of English Poetry is a distinguished and valuable work.
Author : Adam Potkay
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421417022
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.
