Wordsworth's Ethics
Title | Wordsworth's Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Potkay |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-03-15 |
Genre | 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.
Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary
Title | Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | English literature |
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Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay. Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley
Title | Fielding's novels. Cowper and Rousseau. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Wordsworth's ethics. Landor's imaginary conversations. Macaulay. Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Wordsworth and His Circle
Title | Wordsworth and His Circle PDF eBook |
Author | David Watson Rannie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Poems of William Wordsworth
Title | Poems of William Wordsworth PDF eBook |
Author | William Wordsworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1924 |
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Wordsworth's Moral Universe
Title | Wordsworth's Moral Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Grob |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
William Wordsworth
Title | William Wordsworth PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Beatty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1927 |
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