Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams, or, The perils of sensibility : three Grasmere essays / Richard Gravil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gravil, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wordsworth, William.

Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.

Williams, Helen Maria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why did Wordsworth write his first published poem to Helen Maria Williams? What role did she play in forming his views of poetry, and of the French Revolution? Why was Wordsworth able to recite in 1820 a poem by Miss Williams that he first read in 1790? Was his own poetical sensibility comparable with that of the older woman? Did the reception of Wordsworth s *Poems, in Two Volumes* by Francis Jeffrey and others as puerile, namby-pamby, lisping and affected reflect a belief that manly sense and feminine sensibility, are not compatible? If so, why did Wordsworth run that risk? This little book attempts to suggest answers to some of those questions, and to provoke more systematic considerations of them all."

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Licence and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Williams and Wordsworth, an Odyssey""; ""1. Wordsworth�s Revolutionary Anima""; ""�A Region of Romance�""; ""�Domestic carnage�""; ""�Come now, ye golden times�""; ""2. An Affair of Sensibility""; ""Twilight Tears""; ""Affective elements in The Prelude""; ""A language for the sense of aftermath""; ""Wordsworth and the Sensibility Sonnet""; ""3. Wordsworth (Fox) and Jeffrey: �Namby-Pamby�, or the Shock of the New?""; ""Poems, in Two Volumes and Charles James Fox""

""Francis Jeffrey on Wordsworth""""Wordsworth Unmanned; or, the cost of criticism""; ""Helen Maria Williams: a Select Bibliography""; ""Appendix: Textual Echoes""; ""Humanities-Ebooks""

Notes:

Also available as an ebook, pdf from http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk and MyiLibrary.com and (with abridged appendices) in Kindle format.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-110).

ISBN:

1-282-52643-X

9786612526435

1-84760-094-8

OCLC:

923145060