The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 2nd Ed., Vol. 4: The Later Years, Part 1: 1821-1828
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Wordsworth and the Writing of the Nation
Author: James M. Garrett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-17
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1134782063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShedding fresh light on Wordsworth's contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet's lifelong attempt to control his literary representation within the context of national ideas of self-determination represented by the national census, national survey, and national museum. Garrett provides historical background on the origins of these three institutions, which were initiated in Britain near the turn of the nineteenth century, and shows how their development converged with Wordsworth's own as a writer. The result is a new narrative for Wordsworth studies that re-integrates the early, middle, and late periods of the poet's career. Detailed critical discussions of Wordsworth's poetry, including works that are not typically accorded significant attention, force us to reconsider the usual view of Wordsworth as a fading middle-aged poet withdrawing into the hills. Rather, Wordsworth's ceaseless reworking of earlier poems and the flurry of new publications between 1814 and 1820 reveal Wordsworth as an engaged public figure attempting to 'write the nation' and position himself as the nation's poet.
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 730
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJane and Dorothy
Author: Marian Veevers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1681777223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, but their lives have never been examined together before. They both lived in Georgian England, navigated strict social conventions and new ideals, and they were both influenced by Dorothy’s brother, the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his coterie. They were both supremely talented writers yet often lacked the necessary peace of mind in their search for self-expression. Neither ever married. Jane and Dorothy uses each life to illuminate the other. For both women, financial security was paramount and whereas Jane Austen hoped to achieve this through her writing, rather than being dependent on her family, Dorothy made the opposite choice and put her creative powers to the use of her brilliant brother, with whom she lived all her adult life. In this probing book, Marian Veevers discovers a crucial missing piece to the puzzle of Dorothy and William’s relationship and addresses enduring myths surrounding the one man who seems to have stolen Jane’s heart, only to break it . . .
Writing the Poetry of Place in Britain, 1700–1807
Author: Elizabeth R. Napier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1000646009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from the repercussions of self-expression. Working under cover of convention in this manner and because for many of these poets place is tied in significant ways to personal history, poets of place may launch unexpected explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness. This book thus supplements past, largely political, readings of landscape poetry, turning to questions of self-articulation and self-expression in order to argue that the autobiographical impulse is a distinctive and innovative feature of much great eighteenth-century poetry of place. Among the poets under examination are Pope, Thomson, Duck, Gray, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Smith, and Wordsworth.
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth
Author: William Wordsworth
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780191813047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecovering Dorothy
Author: Polly Atkin
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1915089654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth’s later life and work and the impact of her disability – allowing her to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.
William Wordsworth's The Prelude
Author: Stephen Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0195180917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Wordsworth's poem 'The Prelude' is a fascinating work, both as an autobiography and as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. This volume gathers together 13 essays on 'The Prelude', and is useful as a companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest poem.
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The later years. Part 1 : 1821-1828
Author: William Wordsworth
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Published: 2000
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry
Author: Michael Gamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1108132812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers.
