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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... become the author of The Prelude . I greatly admire his poem about the growth of his mind — different aspects of it in all its versions , not least the account it gives of the early 1790s — but my argument is not determined by an effort ...
... become the author of The Prelude . I greatly admire his poem about the growth of his mind — different aspects of it in all its versions , not least the account it gives of the early 1790s — but my argument is not determined by an effort ...
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... 2. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth : The Early Years 1787-1805 , ed . Ernest de Selincourt , 2d ed . rev . by Chester L. Shaver ( Oxford , 1967 ) , 119 , 123–24 . cess in which thoughts become habitual . But a feeling 5.
... 2. The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth : The Early Years 1787-1805 , ed . Ernest de Selincourt , 2d ed . rev . by Chester L. Shaver ( Oxford , 1967 ) , 119 , 123–24 . cess in which thoughts become habitual . But a feeling 5.
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Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. cess in which thoughts become habitual . But a feeling or sympathy makes itself memorable in its first moment — always a moment of shock when it comes from an unexpected source . This ...
Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. cess in which thoughts become habitual . But a feeling or sympathy makes itself memorable in its first moment — always a moment of shock when it comes from an unexpected source . This ...
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... become conventional it was understandable for a rising school of moral detectives to assert that property wrote the poems . My view that a man wrote them — which cannot claim novelty , either — presupposes an account of the first twenty ...
... become conventional it was understandable for a rising school of moral detectives to assert that property wrote the poems . My view that a man wrote them — which cannot claim novelty , either — presupposes an account of the first twenty ...
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... becoming a proselyte of the Revolution . " A politically sympathetic biographer , Legouis by contrast was gently dismissive about Wordsworth's treatment of the common - law wife and child whom he left behind ; an ordinary occur- rence ...
... becoming a proselyte of the Revolution . " A politically sympathetic biographer , Legouis by contrast was gently dismissive about Wordsworth's treatment of the common - law wife and child whom he left behind ; an ordinary occur- rence ...
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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