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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... worth exploring in the light of his circum- stances . But he does not possess a key to the relation between his poetry and his experience , and what he does not own , the conditions of his time and place cannot possibly capture . To ...
... worth exploring in the light of his circum- stances . But he does not possess a key to the relation between his poetry and his experience , and what he does not own , the conditions of his time and place cannot possibly capture . To ...
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... the poems and it seems worth keeping him in view , as disagreeably as possible . There are people his poetry will never touch . They should confess that they find him opaque , as he often found himself , but not put down I Introduction.
... the poems and it seems worth keeping him in view , as disagreeably as possible . There are people his poetry will never touch . They should confess that they find him opaque , as he often found himself , but not put down I Introduction.
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... worth contrives to place himself between the agency of destruction and the man who fears its power ; he is half guardian , half accomplice : a character that , when you think of it , fits him in much of his poetry of the nineties . A ...
... worth contrives to place himself between the agency of destruction and the man who fears its power ; he is half guardian , half accomplice : a character that , when you think of it , fits him in much of his poetry of the nineties . A ...
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... worth children nineteen years after their father's death , and only after a drawn - out legal battle , an occasion of anxiety that doubtless added an edge to William's intuitions about established property . Ann Words- worth , for as ...
... worth children nineteen years after their father's death , and only after a drawn - out legal battle , an occasion of anxiety that doubtless added an edge to William's intuitions about established property . Ann Words- worth , for as ...
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... worth's romantic construction of himself to extenuate his conduct of that summer ) , pointed out that the treatment " puts a woman's face on the Revolution and , in doing so , makes a man of Wordsworth . " That is coolly said , the ...
... worth's romantic construction of himself to extenuate his conduct of that summer ) , pointed out that the treatment " puts a woman's face on the Revolution and , in doing so , makes a man of Wordsworth . " That is coolly said , the ...
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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Authoring the Self: Print Culture, Poetry, and Self-Representation from Pope ... Scott Hees Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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