Wordsworth's Fun

Wordsworth's Fun

Author: Matthew Bevis

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 022665219X

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“The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge’s cottage,” William Hazlitt recalled, “He answered in some degree to his friend’s description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote- like . . . there was a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth.” Hazlitt presents a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know—and, as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, this Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy. Wordsworth’s Fun explores the writer’s debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Combining close reading with cultural analysis, Bevis travels many untrodden ways, studying Wordsworth’s interest in laughing gas, pantomime, the figure of the fool, and the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, Wordsworth’s Fun sheds fresh light on how one poet’s strange humor helped to shape modern literary experiment.


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: 256

ISBN-13: 1317322266

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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 Reading 1770-1799

Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799

Author: Duncan Wu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-01-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0521416000

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A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.


Wordsworth's Classical Undersong

Wordsworth's Classical Undersong

Author: Richard Clancey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0230595758

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Wordsworth's classical education presents an amazing paradox. Gifted teachers trained him in the full rigours of classical Latin and Greek. But Wordsworth's schoolmasters were enlightened, liberal and advanced. They were committed to the Classics and to modern literature. In their enthusiasm they shared their volumes of contemporary poetry with Wordsworth. His was a holistic literary education. Wordsworth developed a profound love for the Classics and thus an enlightened zeal for a new poetry, a poetry capable of being compared with and even daring to compete with the Classical texts he so dearly loved. Richard Clancey's meticulously researched study presents new biographical information on Wordsworth's classical education and new facts about the education of his teachers.


Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815

Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815

Author: Duncan Wu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780521496742

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A comprehensive 1996 listing of authors and books read by William Wordsworth during the years of his greatest poetry.


The Hidden Wordsworth

The Hidden Wordsworth

Author: Kenneth R. Johnston

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780393321593

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"This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."--Hermione Lee, The New York Times


Reading, Writing, and Romanticism

Reading, Writing, and Romanticism

Author: Lucy Newlyn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-10-05

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780198187103

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Lucy Newlyn makes an important contribution to current debates about reading, audiences and publishing in the Romantic period, while also exploring the competitive/collaborative relationship between creativity and criticism. understood in Romantic poetry and criticism. Non-canonical writers are included, and special attention is given to the emergence of women's poetry.