The Simple Wordsworth: Studies in the Poems 1979-1807

ISBN-13: 9781138672024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str.

John F. Danby;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth s simple poems, such as the "Lyrical Ballads," as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has previously been presented as the Sage of Rydal at one extreme and a naive perpetrator of poetical blunders at the other and, the author argues, a far more exciting one. This book will be of interest to students of literature."

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Prologue; I. Wordsworth and Simplicity; II. Three Lyrical Ballads; Simon Lee The Idiot Boy The Thorn; III. Goslar Poems IV. Wordsworth and ‘Nature’ V. The Apotheosis of the Animal; Epilogue

O autorze

John F. Danby