Wordsworth's poetry, 1814-1845 / Tim Fulford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulford, Tim, 1962- author.

Series:

Haney Foundation series.

Haney Foundation series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wordsworth, William.

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

English poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Summary:

The later poetry of William Wordsworth, popular in his lifetime and influential on the Victorians, has, with a few exceptions, received little attention from contemporary literary critics. In Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that the later work reveals a mature poet far more varied and surprising than is often acknowledged. Examining the most characteristic poems in their historical contexts, he shows Wordsworth probing the experiences and perspectives of later life and innovating formally and stylistically. He demonstrates how Wordsworth modified his writing in light of conversations with younger poets and learned to acknowledge his debt to women in ways he could not as a young man. The older Wordsworth emerges in Fulford's depiction as a love poet of companionate tenderness rather than passionate lament. He also appears as a political poet-bitter at capitalist exploitation and at a society in which vanity is rewarded while poverty is blamed. Most notably, he stands out as a history poet more probing and more clear-sighted than any of his time in his understanding of the responsibilities and temptations of all who try to memorialize the past.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Producing a Poet for the Public; Chapter 1. Learning to Be a Poet of Imagination: Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper; Chapter 2. The Politics of Landscape and the Poetics of Patronage: Collecting Coleorton; Part II. Spots of Space: Materializing Memory; Chapter 3. Memorials of Scott-land, 1814-33; Chapter 4. Textual Strata and Geological Form: The Scriptorium and the Cave; Part III. The Politics of Diction; Chapter 5. The Erotics of Influence: Wordsworth as Byron and Keats

Chapter 6. Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott: Radicalism RenewedPart IV. Late Genres; Chapter 7. Narrow Cells and Stone Circles: Sonnet Form and Spiritual History; Chapter 8. Evanescence and After-Effect: The Evening Voluntaries; Coda. Elegiac Musing and Generic Mixing; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812295788

0812295781

OCLC:

1476304985