Buried communities : Wordsworth and the bonds of mourning / Kurt Fosso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fosso, Kurt, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Elegiac poetry, English--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, English.

Mourning customs in literature.

Communities in literature.

Grief in literature.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Contents:

Intro

Buried Communities

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

1. A "World of Shades": The Birth of Community in the Juvenilia

2. Grief and Dwelling in the Cambridge Poems, including An Evening Walk

3. Genre, Politics, and Community in the Salisbury Plain Poems

4. The Shades of Mourning and the One Life in The Ruined Cottage

5. Elegies, Epitaphs, and Legacies of Loss in Lyrical Ballads

6. Grieving and Dwelling in the Five-Book Prelude and Home at Grasmere

7. "A New Controul" in Poems in Two Volumes and The Excursion

NOTES

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8570-6

1-4175-7758-4

OCLC:

62734635