Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals): The Poetry of Displacement

ISBN-13: 9781138804111 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 250 str.

David Simpson;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

David Simpson challenges the established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth's preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted.

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Acknowledgements;  Citations and abbreviations;  Introduction: writing in history and theory  1. ‘Gipsies’  2. Wordsworth’s agrarian idealism: he case against urban life  3. Another guide to the lakes  4. ‘In single or in social eminence’? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere  5. ‘By conflicting passions pressed’: ‘Michael’ and ‘Simon Lee’  6. Poets, paupers and peripatetics: the politics of sympathy  7. Structuring a subject: The Excursion;  Postscript: ‘The star of eve was wanting’;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index