William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic
Author: Jeffrey Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108943780

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814–1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response to 'second generation' romanticism. After exploring the ways in which his younger contemporaries rewrote his 'Excursion', this volume examines how Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' enters into a complex conversation with Leigh Hunt and Byron; how the delayed publication of 'Peter Bell' could be read as a reaction to the Byronic hero; how the older poet's River Duddon sonnets respond to Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'; and how his later volumes, particularly 'Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837', engage in a complicated erasure of poets who both followed and predeceased him.

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic
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.

The Romantic Poets

The Romantic Poets
Author: Uttara Natarajan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0470766352

This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints

The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth
Author: Emma Mason
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139491636

William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this Introduction offers students ways to understand and enjoy Wordsworth's poetry and his role in the development of Romanticism in Britain. Emma Mason offers a completely up-to-date summary of criticism on Wordsworth from the Romantics to the present and an annotated guide to further reading. With definitions of technical terms and close readings of individual poems, Wordsworth's experiments with form are fully explained. This concise book is the ideal starting point for studying Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and the major poems as well as Wordsworth's lesser known writings.

Peter Bell

Peter Bell
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1819
Genre:
ISBN:

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy
Author: Joseph Luzzi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2008-11-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300151780

This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Author: Essaka Joshua
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108836704

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air
Author: Thomas H. Ford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108424953

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Radical Wordsworth

Radical Wordsworth
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300228910

On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow Romantics changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. But his was also a revolutionary life in the old sense of the word, insofar as his art was of memory, the return of the past, the circling back to childhood and youth. This beautifully written biography is purposefully fragmentary, momentary, and selective, opening up what Wordsworth called "the hiding-places of my power."

The Cambridge History of English Poetry

The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1117
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521883067

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.