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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... suggests that any exhilaration drawn from " sorrow of the meanest thing that feels " is wicked , however it may be associated with monuments of distinguished ownership . The modest inheritance of an upright man like Michael touches the ...
... suggests that any exhilaration drawn from " sorrow of the meanest thing that feels " is wicked , however it may be associated with monuments of distinguished ownership . The modest inheritance of an upright man like Michael touches the ...
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... suggest that we call it a sense of radical humanity . I do not know if the phrase has been used before . The idea need ... suggests a figure of remissive authority , a source of comfort and of constant support who yet did " little more ...
... suggest that we call it a sense of radical humanity . I do not know if the phrase has been used before . The idea need ... suggests a figure of remissive authority , a source of comfort and of constant support who yet did " little more ...
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... . " Wordsworth's ability to deploy the passage with two such differ- ent overtones suggests his ambivalent attraction to the coercive rationality of the theory ; see chapter 2 below . Why should the beggar have startled him , as nothing 14.
... . " Wordsworth's ability to deploy the passage with two such differ- ent overtones suggests his ambivalent attraction to the coercive rationality of the theory ; see chapter 2 below . Why should the beggar have startled him , as nothing 14.
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... suggest , are wrong about Wordsworth , who was right to stick to his metaphor of distance , to walk around the complex subject as evasively as the subject demands , and not to capitalize the result . The one apparently solid abstraction ...
... suggest , are wrong about Wordsworth , who was right to stick to his metaphor of distance , to walk around the complex subject as evasively as the subject demands , and not to capitalize the result . The one apparently solid abstraction ...
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Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. It may seem a paradox to suggest that nature exists for the sake of the ... suggests why it would be a misjudged enter- prise to try to say what sort of thinker he was . His work is more ...
Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich. It may seem a paradox to suggest that nature exists for the sake of the ... suggests why it would be a misjudged enter- prise to try to say what sort of thinker he was . His work is more ...
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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