Wordsworth's Classical Undersong

Wordsworth's Classical Undersong
Author: Richard Clancey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230595758

Wordsworth's classical education presents an amazing paradox. Gifted teachers trained him in the full rigours of classical Latin and Greek. But Wordsworth's schoolmasters were enlightened, liberal and advanced. They were committed to the Classics and to modern literature. In their enthusiasm they shared their volumes of contemporary poetry with Wordsworth. His was a holistic literary education. Wordsworth developed a profound love for the Classics and thus an enlightened zeal for a new poetry, a poetry capable of being compared with and even daring to compete with the Classical texts he so dearly loved. Richard Clancey's meticulously researched study presents new biographical information on Wordsworth's classical education and new facts about the education of his teachers.

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Author: John Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137266015

From the earliest reviews of his poetry, readers were deeply divided on the merits of William Wordsworth's work. John Williams looks in detail at the major poems and discusses the critical issues that have dominated discussions of Wordsworth's compositions since they first began to appear in print after 1798. Beginning with a fresh assessment of the controversies that developed around Lyrical Ballads, the chapters trace the evolution of both Wordsworth's poetry and his reputation through to his death in 1850. At each stage, Williams investigates the possible reasons why critics and readers responded as they did: enraged by his revolutionary 'Jacobinism' at the turn of the eighteenth century; insulted by the 'simplicity' of the Poems in Two Volumes of 1807; reassured by his commitment to Nature and his reverence for Church and State in the early Victorian period. In the twentieth century, Wordsworth has been subjected to a series of extensive critical reappraisals. With reference to a wide range of the poetry, Williams goes on to discuss the way Wordsworth has been variously reconstructed as a consequence of the main critical and theoretical initiatives of the last one hundred years. He also examines the Wordsworth we have inherited for the twenty-first century: a poet many still feel has important things to say to the contemporary reader about human relationships, nature, the environment, and our imaginative life.

William Wordsworth, Updated Edition

William Wordsworth, Updated Edition
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009
Genre: Criticism
ISBN: 1438113609

Presents a collection of critical essays on English poet laureate William Wordsworth and his works.

William Wordsworth in Context

William Wordsworth in Context
Author: Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107028418

This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth
Author: Stephen Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2003-06-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825887

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. Further contributions include discussions of The Prelude and The Recluse, Wordsworth as philosophic poet, his writing in relation to European Romanticism, and Wordsworth as Nature poet. The collection, by an international team of established specialists concludes with a lucid account of the history of Wordsworth's texts, and offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading.The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.

Buried Communities

Buried Communities
Author: Kurt Fosso
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791459607

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts
Author: D. Westbrook
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2001-09-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0312299338

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal nothing.

The Book of God

The Book of God
Author: Colin Jager
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812239799

"The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism."—Orrin Wang, University of Maryland

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance
Author: Jessica Fay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198816200

The first extended examination of the influence of monasticism on Wordsworth's writing. Covering the poet's development between 1806 and 1822, it considers how a series of sources describing medieval monastic life in the north of England influenced Wordsworth's thinking about regional attachment, trans-historical community, and national cohesion.