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Wordsworth as Critic / W.J.B. Owen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owen, W.J.B., Author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Knowledge--Literature.
- Wordsworth, William.
- Criticism--England--History--19th century.
- Criticism.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book is the first full-scale account of the growth of Wordsworth's thinking about the theory of poetry. It draws mainly on his formal critical essays but also on unpublished material and personal statements about poetics and the growth and constitution of the poet's mind in The Prelude, in other verse, and in letters.
- Contents:
- The preface of 1800
- The theory of metre
- "The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
- The additions of 1802
- Interrelations
- Essays upon epitaphs
- The preface of 1815
- Essay, supplementary to the preface
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-7840-7
- OCLC:
- 1102655256
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