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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... sense to remind us that poets in this resemble other people . I doubt that such a story can tell an ade- quate truth about people in general ; one may treat it with at least as much skepticism in the case of poets . Wordsworth in his ...
... sense to remind us that poets in this resemble other people . I doubt that such a story can tell an ade- quate truth about people in general ; one may treat it with at least as much skepticism in the case of poets . Wordsworth in his ...
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... sense of excite- ment justified itself : " I felt most deeply in what world I was . " Whatever was in this premonition of the later Terror for those who suffered— and he does not gloss over the sufferings — Wordsworth felt intoxicated ...
... sense of excite- ment justified itself : " I felt most deeply in what world I was . " Whatever was in this premonition of the later Terror for those who suffered— and he does not gloss over the sufferings — Wordsworth felt intoxicated ...
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... sense of Wordsworth's fidelity to a democratic idealism ( though in defensive and specialized forms ) a full decade after Napoleon's attack on the Swiss republic cooled his enthusiasm for France , has not been shared by many recent ...
... sense of Wordsworth's fidelity to a democratic idealism ( though in defensive and specialized forms ) a full decade after Napoleon's attack on the Swiss republic cooled his enthusiasm for France , has not been shared by many recent ...
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... sense of radical humanity . I do not know if the phrase has been used before . The 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 ...
... sense of radical humanity . I do not know if the phrase has been used before . The 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 ...
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... sense or motion lay , And when the trance was gone , feebly pursued his way . ' 10 The sixth line of the stanza reads — in the revision Wordsworth made near the end of his life — as if to cover him from day . He never stopped being ...
... sense or motion lay , And when the trance was gone , feebly pursued his way . ' 10 The sixth line of the stanza reads — in the revision Wordsworth made near the end of his life — as if to cover him from day . He never stopped being ...
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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