Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) The Poetry of Displacement
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 acutel
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Citations and abbreviations; Introduction: writing in history and theory; 1 'Gipsies'; Minding the poet's trade; The travelling people; 2 Wordsworth's agrarian idealism: the case against urban life; 3 Another guide to the lakes; The real state of sublunary 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 'Simon Lee'The poetry of property; The poet as patron; 6 Poets, paupers and peripatetics: the politics of sympathy; The uses of poverty: 'The Old Cumberland Beggar'; Versions of relief: 'Beggars' and 'Alice Fell'; 7 Structuring a subject: The Excursion; Talking through the rural life; Education and religion; 'A species of ventriloquism'; Postscript: 'The star of eve was wanting'; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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