Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

ISBN-13: 9781108441032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Thomas H. Ford

Opis

This book explores how the meaning of 'poetic atmosphere' developed within larger ideas of Romanticism, particularly through the poetry of William Wordsworth, who was the first to see its potential as metaphor. Thomas H. Ford here makes a significant contribution to debates in the areas of literary ecology and ecocriticism.

Recenzje

'… Ford offers intriguing readings of a suite of natural history and medico-material texts both central and somewhat peripheral to standard Romantic criticism, including Herder, Goethe, Keats, Howard, Priestley, and Faraday.' Michelle Levy, The Wordsworth Circle

Spis treści

1. Atmospheric Romanticism; 2. Atmospheric mediation; 3. Romantic meteorology; 4. Atmospheric aesthetics; 5. In the breathing chamber: 'lines written a few miles above'.