William Wordsworth in Context
Title | William Wordsworth in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bennett |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2015-02-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107028418 |
This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
William Wordsworth in Context
Title | William Wordsworth in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Bennett |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2015-02-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316239829 |
William Wordsworth's poetry responded to the enormous literary, political, cultural, technological and social changes that the poet lived through during his lifetime (1770‒1850), and to his own transformation from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the 'egotistical sublime' who wrote the pioneering autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude, and whose work is remarkable for its investigation of personal impressions, memories and experiences, is also the poet who is critically engaged with the cultural and political developments of his era. William Wordsworth in Context presents thirty-five concise chapters on contexts crucial for an understanding and appreciation of this leading Romantic poet. It focuses on his life, circle, and composition; on his reception and influence; on the significance of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century literary contexts; and on the historical, political, scientific and philosophical issues that helped to shape Wordsworth's poetry and prose.
Wordsworth in Context
Title | Wordsworth in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Fletcher |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN | 9780838752241 |
"Essays by several contributors represent a marriage between traditional textual scholarship and issues raised by contemporary theory and criticism. Jonathan Wordsworth discusses the making and remaking of The Prelude, along with other examples of the long poem in English; he emphasizes the shifting nature of both the text and the self and questions traditional assumptions about authorial intention and the possibility of producing authoritative texts. Pamela Woof brings an awareness of recent developments in feminist theory and gender studies to bear on her exploration of the role of Dorothy Wordsworth in the engendering of her brother's poetry, while Jared Curtis uses close textual analysis of a poem that was originally drafted by William, revised by Dorothy, and published by Coleridge, to raise issues of intertextuality and collective authorship." "Such accommodation between traditional scholarship and contemporary trends is by no means universal, and the present volume closes with Helen Vendler's fierce attack on the New Historicism, which she sees as hostile to the lyric impulse. Academic revolutions, as we know, can generate violent debate, but such debate should surely be welcomed as a guarantee of the continuing vitality of the discipline."--BOOK JACKET.
William Wordsworth
Title | William Wordsworth PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gill |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2020-04-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0192551280 |
In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life—1770 to 1850—tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.
William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship
Title | William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Hess |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813932300 |
In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship" a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite--factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.
William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty
Title | William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Heidi J Snow |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2014-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1409465934 |
Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworth’s poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poet’s early years were primarily irreligious. She argues that this idea, based on the equation of Christianity with Anglicanism, discounts the richly varied theological landscape of Wordsworth’s youth. Reading Wordsworth’s poetry in the context of the diversity of theological views represented in his milieu, Snow shows that poems like The Excursion reject Anglican orthodoxy in favor of a meld of Quaker, Methodist, and deist theologies. Rather than support a narrative of Wordsworth’s life as a journey from atheism to orthodoxy or even from radicalism to conservatism, therefore, Wordsworth’s body of work consistently makes a case for a sensitive approach to the problem of the poor that relies on a multifaceted theological perspective. To reconstruct the religious context in which Wordsworth wrote in its complexity, Snow makes extensive use of the materials in the record offices of the Lake District and the religious sermons and congregational records for the orthodox Anglican, evangelical Anglican, Methodist, and Quaker congregations. Snow’s depiction of the multiple religious traditions in the Lake District complicates our understanding of Wordsworth’s theological influences and his views on the poor.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Title | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud PDF eBook |
Author | William Wordsworth |
Publisher | Lobster Press |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2007-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781897073254 |
"The classic Wordsworth poem is depicted in vibrant illustrations, perfect for pint-sized poetry fans."