Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn
Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn

Author: John Rieder

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780874136104

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Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination.

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel

Author: Mark Offord

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1107155584

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This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's poetry, combining concepts of travel, 'states of nature' and language.

Wordsworth's Vagrants
Wordsworth's Vagrants

Author: Quentin Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1134782276

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Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From his work on the Salisbury Plain poems through to the poetry about vagrants, beggars, and lunatics in Lyrical Ballads, Quentin Bailey argues, Wordsworth attempted to imagine a way of relating to the vagrant and criminal poor that could challenge the systematizing impulses of William Pitt and Jeremy Bentham. Whereas writers had previously relied on sensibility and fellow-feeling to reveal the correct ordering of society, Wordsworth was writing in a period in which legislators, magistrates, and commentators agreed that a more aggressively interventionist approach and new institutional solutions were needed to tackle criminality and establish a disciplined and obedient workforce. Wordsworth's interest in individual psychology and solitude, Bailey suggests, grew out of his specific awareness of the Bloody Code and the discussions surrounding it. His study offers a way of reading Wordsworth's poetry that is sensitive to his early radicalism but which does not equate socio-political engagement solely with support for the French Revolution.

Wordsworth's Revisitings
Wordsworth's Revisitings

Author: Stephen Gill

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-10-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0199268770

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In this beautifully written and thoughtful book Wordsworth's biographer and editor Stephen Gill explores the ways in which the poet attempted as an artist to maintain continuities through all the stages of his life and shows how revisitings of various kinds are at the heart of his creativity.

British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Author: Simon Bainbridge

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780198187585

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This book argues that poetry played a major role in the mediation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British public, and that the wars had a significant impact on poetic practices and theories in the Romantic period. It examines a wide range of writers, both canonical (Wordsworth,Coleridge, and Byron) and non-canonical (Smith, Southey, Scott, and Hemans), and locates their work within the huge amount of war poetry published in newspapers and magazines. It shows that poetry was a crucial form through which what were seen as the first modern or 'total' wars were imagined inBritain and that it was central to the cultural and political debates over the conflict with France. While the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars compelled poets to re-examine their roles, it was poetry itself which produced a major transformation of the imagining of war that would be influentialthroughout the nineteenth century.

Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception
Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception

Author: Brian R Bates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317322274

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Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.

Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842
Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842

Author: R. Gravil

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-10-13

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0230510337

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From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth was preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with 'natural piety' in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre , including the 'Gothic' juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage , Lyrical Ballads , Poems in Two Volumes , The Excursion , and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind 'the living and the dead' and to nurture 'the kind'.

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth

Author: Richard Gravil

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 978

ISBN-13: 0191019658

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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842
Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842

Author: Richard Gravil

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1847603459

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Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, the most comprehensive critical study of the poet since the 1960s, presents the poet as balladist, sonneteer, minstrel, elegist, prophet of nature, and national bard. The book argues that Wordsworth's uniquely various oeuvre is unified by his sense of bardic vocation. Like Walt Whitman or the bards of Cumbria, Wordsworth sees himself as 'the people's remembrancer'. Like them, he sings of nature and endurance, laments the fallen, fosters national independence and liberty. His task is to reconcile in one society 'the living and the dead' and to nurture both 'the people' and 'the kind'. Review Comment: 'This erudite exposition, profligate with its ideas ... succeeds as few others have done in apprehending Wordsworth's career holistically, incorporating all its diversities and apparent inconsistencies into a unified vision. It justifies fully the notion proposed by Hughes and Heaney that he was England's last national poet.' - Duncan Wu, Review of English Studies