The Excursion And Wordsworths Iconography
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Author | : Brandon C. Yen |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1800857225 |
This book considers William Wordsworth’s use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a middle course between The Excursion’s two very different interpretive traditions, one focusing upon the poem’s philosophical abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth’s other major works, including The Prelude. Yen explores Wordsworth’s iconography in The Excursion by tracing allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth’s prose and poetry. He analyses how the iconographical images in The Excursion contribute to, and impose limitations on, the overarching preoccupations of Wordsworth’s writings, particularly the themes of paradise lost and paradise regained in the post-revolutionary context. Shedding light on a vital aspect of Wordsworth’s poetic method, this study reveals the visual etymologies – together with the nuances and rhetorical capacities – of five categories of apparently ‘collateral’ images: envisioning, rooting, dwelling, flowing, and reflecting.
Author | : Brandon Chao-Chi Yen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9781800851771 |
This text considers William Wordsworth's use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion (1814). Through this iconographical approach, it steers a middle course between The Excursion's two very different interpretative traditions, the one focusing upon the poem's abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. The author explores Wordsworth's iconography in The Excursion by tracing cultural and political allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth's own prose and poetry, especially The Prelude. Particular attention is paid to the complex ways in which The Excursion's iconographical images contribute to - and also impose limitations upon - the overarching preoccupations of Wordsworth's writings: the themes of paradise lost and paradise regained in the post-revolutionary context.
Author | : Jeffrey Cox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2021-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108837611 |
Comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.
Author | : Philip Shaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2023-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009363182 |
A rich, illuminating study of how Wordsworth's late poetry reflects his lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace.
Author | : William Wordsworth |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : William Wordsworth |
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Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Émile Hyacinthe Legouis |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1897 |
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Author | : William Wordsworth |
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Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Jacomina Korteling |
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Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Mysticism in literature |
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Author | : Tim Fulford |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2019-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812250818 |
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.