Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering
Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering

Author: James H. Averill

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-06-30

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 150174108X

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Murderers, crazed widows, beggars, betrayed women—such are the pitiful figures who appear throughout Wordsworth's early narrative poetry. Analyzing the poet's use of pathos from the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads through the completion of The Prelude, James H. Averill argues that, for Wordsworth, the poetry of human life is inevitably the poetry of anguish and loss. Averill examines the relation of the poet to his human subjects, exploring the questions of tragic response and sentimental morality, the literary uses of human misery, and the pleasures of tragedy. In Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering, James H. Averill enriches our understanding and our appreciation of the peculiar power of Wordsworth's poetic vision.

Romanticism Across the Disciplines
Romanticism Across the Disciplines

Author: Larry H. Peer

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Twelve essays explore different manifestations of Romanticism in history, music, literature, the visual arts, and philosophy. Particular topics include the growth of nationalism in literature and music, the influence of the Italian journal Il Conciliatore (1818- 1819), The notion of "wanderer" as a trope in German culture, the resurgence of conceptual romanticism in Jeanette Wintersons's novel The Passion, and the romanticism found in Poe's parody of The Arabian Nights. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Wordsworth's Vagrants
Wordsworth's Vagrants

Author: Quentin Bailey

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1409427064

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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 the Salisbury Plain poems through to Lyrical Ballads, Quentin Bailey's readings are sensitive to Wordsworth's early radicalism without equating his socio-political engagement solely with support for the French Revolution.

Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry
Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry

Author: Stephen Tedeschi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1108416098

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This book re-orientates the relationship between urbanization and English Romantic poetry by focusing on urban aspects of Romantic poems.

Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are

Author: Paul H. Fry

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0300145411

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Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities, but rather that it simply exists.

Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry
Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry

Author: Richard E. Matlak

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1040035574

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Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier. Following a chronological arc from October 1793, when the trauma began, until its conclusion in October 1803, when Wordsworth became a poet-soldier, I examine poetic works from The Borderers (1796), the “Discharged Soldier’ (1798), the Two-Part Prelude (1799), Home at Grasmere (1800), and the Liberty sonnets (1803), to follow the Poet working through anxiety, fear, and remorse to a resolution.

Birdsong, Speech and Poetry
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry

Author: Francesca Mackenney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1316513718

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Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.

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

Author: Richard Gravil

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 019101964X

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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.