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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... 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 modern ...
... 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 modern ...
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... human body that in irons swang , / Uplifted by the tempest , " he knows it to be an image of himself : It was a spectacle which none might view In spot so savage but with shuddering pain Nor only did for him at once renew All he had ...
... human body that in irons swang , / Uplifted by the tempest , " he knows it to be an image of himself : It was a spectacle which none might view In spot so savage but with shuddering pain Nor only did for him at once renew All he had ...
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... human nature , in spite of the conventions of society and in spite of its laws . Society , as it now seems to him ... humanity . The beggar as he moves on the highway is oblivious to the charities . that support him . The idiot boy ...
... human nature , in spite of the conventions of society and in spite of its laws . Society , as it now seems to him ... humanity . The beggar as he moves on the highway is oblivious to the charities . that support him . The idiot boy ...
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... humanity . The beggar calls into being a little society more real than the large one in which he stands as a marginal figure : he is defined ulti- mately by the feelings others can have ... human being or the rational person ought to 19.
... humanity . The beggar calls into being a little society more real than the large one in which he stands as a marginal figure : he is defined ulti- mately by the feelings others can have ... human being or the rational person ought to 19.
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Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. whether the human being or the rational person ought to be the primary datum for moral reflection — Wordsworth emerges as a whole - length de- fender of the human being and an antagonist ...
Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. whether the human being or the rational person ought to be the primary datum for moral reflection — Wordsworth emerges as a whole - length de- fender of the human being and an antagonist ...
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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