Wordsworth's Pope
Wordsworth's Pope

Author: Robert J. Griffin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-12-14

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521481717

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Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to explore the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring its literary past. In Wordsworth's Pope Robert J. Griffin shows that many of the basic tenets of Romanticism derive from mid-eighteenth-century writers' attempts to free themselves from the literary dominance of Alexander Pope. As a result, a narrative of literary history in which Pope figured as an alien poet of reason and imitation became the basis for nineteenth-century literary history, and still affects our thinking on Pope and Romanticism. Griffin traces the genesis and transmission of "romantic literary history", from the Wartons to M. H. Abrams; in so doing, he calls into question some of our most basic assumptions about the chronological and conceptual boundaries of Romanticism.

Wordsworth's Fun
Wordsworth's Fun

Author: Matthew Bevis

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 022665222X

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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.

The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia
The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia

Author: Pat Rogers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 031306153X

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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic. Many of his sayings are still quoted today. His Essay on Criticism shaped the aesthetic views of English Neoclassicism, while his Essay on Man reflected the moral views of the Enlightenment. He participated fully in the critical debates of his time and was one of the few poets who supported himself through his writing. This reference conveniently summarizes his life and works. Included are several-hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Pope's works, subjects that interested him, historical events that impacted Pope's life and work, cultural terms and categories, Pope's family members and acquaintances, major scholars and critics, and various other topics related to his writings. The entries reflect current scholarship and cite works for further reading. The encyclopedia also provides a chronology and concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Because of Pope's central importance to the Enlightenment, this book is also a useful companion to 18th-century literary and intellectual culture.

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.

Dryden and Pope in the Early 19th Century
Dryden and Pope in the Early 19th Century

Author: Amarsinghe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0521040264

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This neatly conducted argument, examining the phenomenon of 'romanticism', is a model survey of how changes in literary taste are brought about.

Authoring the Self
Authoring the Self

Author: Scott Hess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1135875162

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Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.