Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9780198856986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Alexander Freer

Opis

Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing.

Recenzje

Freer demonstrates especially moving, lyrical readings, where the consequences of his thinking seem to gesture beyond the specificity of the writing. [...] Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure ... demonstrates the extent to which our Romantic readings of the unnoticed can often produce powerful pleasures that wrestle with our appropriative glances and feelings, those we cast at a past that is not entirely ours to begin with but to which we feel complexly indebted.

O autorze

Alexander Freer is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he teaches eighteenth-century and romantic literature. He studied at Warwick and at Christ's College, Cambridge, taught at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of essays on romantic poetry, poetics, and literary criticism.