William Wordsworth, second-generation romantic : contesting poetry after Waterloo / Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado Boulder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Jeffrey N., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Contemporaries.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814-1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response to 'second generation' romanticism. After exploring the ways in which his younger contemporaries rewrote his 'Excursion', this volume examines how Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' enters into a complex conversation with Leigh Hunt and Byron; how the delayed publication of 'Peter Bell' could be read as a reaction to the Byronic hero; how the older poet's River Duddon sonnets respond to Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'; and how his later volumes, particularly 'Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837', engage in a complicated erasure of poets who both followed and predeceased him.

Contents:

Cockney Excursions

Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' : An Engaged Poetics and the Horrors of War

'This Potter-Don-Juan' : Peter Bell in 1819

Thinking Rivers : The Flow of Influence, Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley

Late 'Late Wordsworth'

Postscript: Wordsworth in 1850 : The Prelude, 'this posthumous yet youthful work'

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-94378-0

1-108-95001-9

1-108-94669-0

OCLC:

1224044608