Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals): The Poetry of DisplacementRoutledge, 7 aug 2014 - 252 pagina's 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.
... Michael' and 'The Old Cumberland Beggar' are in different ways major poems; the first is an acknowledged masterpiece, the second a notorious challenge which most students of Romanticism choose to face up to. Here, my reader is less ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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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