Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later poetry : dialogues with the dead / Tim Fulford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulford, Tim, 1962- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 141.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 141

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wordsworth, William.

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

Experimental poetry.

Death in literature--History--19th century.

Death in literature.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry Tim Fulford provides detailed readings of a range of little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth to the one we are used to. This newly-revealed Wordsworth continued experimenting with form, genre and style as his career progressed so as to ponder the challenging experiences presented by later life. Fulford invites the reader to engage, through Wordsworth's poetry, with such broadly-felt concerns as quarantine, isolation, mental illness and bereavement. Focused yet broad in chronological scope, this study also considers the literature of Wordsworth's old age in relation to his earlier work. Tim Fulford is the author of many books and articles on the literature and history of the Romantic Period (1780-1840), and is the editor of The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022). His monograph Wordsworth's Poetry 1815-45 (2019) won the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Scholarship 2020. His edition The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (co-edited with Sharon Ruston) (2020) won an honourable mention in the MLA biennial Morton N. Cohen Award For A Distinguished Edition Of Letters"-- Provided by publisher.

Tim Fulford provides detailed readings of a range of little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth to the one we are used to. This newly-revealed Wordsworth continued experimenting with form, genre and style as his career progressed so as to ponder the challenging experiences presented by later life. Fulford invites the reader to engage, through Wordsworth's poetry, with such broadly-felt concerns as quarantine, isolation, mental illness and bereavement. Focused yet broad in chronological scope, this study also considers the literature of Wordsworth's old age in relation to his earlier work.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The death zone: Wordsworth, Scott and Davy on Helvellyn

2. Chronicle of a death untold: Wordsworth's 'Epistle to Sir George Beaumont'

3. Wordsworth in homage: eligising the lyrical ballad

4. Worldsworth at sea: lockdown and lunacy in two poems from the 1830s

5. Dementia poetics in Wordsworth's late memorials

6. Wordsworth's bardic vacation: involing the spiritual in the age of steam

7. Hybrids, hermits and hut dwellers: late lyrical ballads

8. An aged man writes about an aged man: Wordsworth's last poems and the new Poor Law.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Fulford, Tim, 1962- Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later poetry

ISBN:

9781009320795

1009320793

9781009320788

1009320785

OCLC:

1346617491