Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790sUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 M04 15 - 186 páginas Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In Disowned by Memory, David Bromwich connects the accidents of Wordsworth's life with the originality of his writing, showing how the poet's strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed the deepest motive of his writings of the 1790s. "This very Wordsworthian combination of apparently low subjects with extraordinary 'high argument' makes for very rewarding, though often challenging reading."—Kenneth R. Johnston, Washington Times "Wordsworth emerges from this short and finely written book as even stranger than we had thought, and even more urgently our contemporary."—Grevel Lindop, Times Literary Supplement "[Bromwich's] critical interpretations of the poetry itself offer readers unusual insights into Wordworth's life and work."—Library Journal "An added benefit of this book is that it restores our faith that criticism can actually speak to our needs. Bromwich is a rigorous critic, but he is a general one whose insights are broadly applicable. It's an intellectual pleasure to rise to his complexities."—Vijay Seshadri, New York Times Book Review |
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... idea of himself and of other persons has the force of an impera- tive , and it is wrong to make that mean a sublimation of social matter into aesthetic form . For him , the aesthetic is isolable only as a primitive phenomenon , a ...
... idea of himself and of other persons has the force of an impera- tive , and it is wrong to make that mean a sublimation of social matter into aesthetic form . For him , the aesthetic is isolable only as a primitive phenomenon , a ...
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... gloss over the sufferings — Wordsworth felt intoxicated as well as chastened , and he tells us so . The idea that Wordsworth was never an actor in such scenes , but a contemplative observer , we owe above all to Coleridge . 3.
... gloss over the sufferings — Wordsworth felt intoxicated as well as chastened , and he tells us so . The idea that Wordsworth was never an actor in such scenes , but a contemplative observer , we owe above all to Coleridge . 3.
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... idea of a " pleasure - house . " Every making of property must be a celebration of vanity . This was perhaps the one form of invention of which he disapproved in principle . To inherit passively is as much the right thing to do with ...
... idea of a " pleasure - house . " Every making of property must be a celebration of vanity . This was perhaps the one form of invention of which he disapproved in principle . To inherit passively is as much the right thing to do with ...
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... idea need not be universalist , for the life in question is not a composite image drawn by a citizen of the world . Neither is it particularist in the modern anthropological and identitarian sense . Wordsworth's particulars are natural ...
... idea need not be universalist , for the life in question is not a composite image drawn by a citizen of the world . Neither is it particularist in the modern anthropological and identitarian sense . Wordsworth's particulars are natural ...
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... ideas that cannot be acted upon , or a life that has grown separate from oneself , may be as great a calamity . He has robbed and murdered a man within sight of his house— " in such a mood / That from his view his children might have ...
... ideas that cannot be acted upon , or a life that has grown separate from oneself , may be as great a calamity . He has robbed and murdered a man within sight of his house— " in such a mood / That from his view his children might have ...
Contenido
Alienation and Belonging to Humanity | 23 |
Political Justice in The Borderers | 44 |
The French Revolution and Tintern Abbey | 69 |
Moral Relations in the Preface and Two Ballads | 92 |
The Trial of Individuality | 110 |
Historical Catastrophe and Personal Memory | 139 |
Conclusion | 175 |
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Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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