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Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn

Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s

By: John Rieder

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Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn

Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s

By: John Rieder

Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874136105

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9780874136104

This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’S Poetic Destiny

By: John O'Meara

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This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’S Poetic Destiny

By: John O'Meara

Looking ahead to the 250th anniversary of Wordsworths birth, this small book challenges fresh questions about where Wordsworth stood in his poetic production in the great years of creative ferment between 1798 and 1806. Numerous poems are covered from this period, but especially does this book re-think our traditional conception of the relationship between The Prelude and Intimations. Wordsworth is separated from the visionary life he once knew by the interdictive effects of his obsession with The Recluse, the great philosophical poem he never finished. In the meantime he takes up with The Prelude but the essential Wordsworth remains the one who, in Intimations, turns his attention back, yearningly, to the visionary gleam. With The Prelude the epic poet comes through, but Wordsworth the visionary poet is lost, and it concerns him all the more now that he feels he faces death and a new darkness, the darkness of the grave, without the life that he once knew.

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117

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iUniverse

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1462018238

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9781462018239

A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude

Books I-V

By: Ted Holt,John Gilroy

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A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude

Books I-V

By: Ted Holt,John Gilroy

First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading it in continuous sequence and making its sense emerge. The special value of this commentary is that it explains the structure of The Prelude by encouraging study of the poem as a continuous whole rather than selectively looking at individual sections — an approach that has typified modern criticism of the work. This depends upon a close attention to the careful arrangement of the verse paragraphs, all of which make an indispensable contribution to the overall thought pattern, thus leading to a fuller appreciation and understanding of the poem.

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138

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Routledge

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1317209117

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9781317209119

Elegy for an Age

The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

By: John D. Rosenberg

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Elegy for an Age

The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

By: John D. Rosenberg

This rich and elegant work describes how the unsettled cultural climate provided fertile soil for the flourishing of elegy. John Rosenberg shows how the phenomenon of elegy pervaded the writing of the period, tracing it through the voices of individuals from Carlyle, Tennyson, Darwin and Ruskin, to Swinburne, Pater, Dickens and Hopkins. Finally, he turns from particular elegists to a common experience that touched them all - the displacement of the older idea of the earthly city as a New Jerusalem by the rise of a new image of the Victorian city as an industrial Inferno, a wasteland of sprawling towns and of rivers so polluted they caught on fire.

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304

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Anthem Press

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0857287338

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9780857287335

A Preface to Wordsworth

By: John Purkis

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A Preface to Wordsworth

By: John Purkis

Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to the final years.

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220

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Routledge

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0582437652

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9780582437654

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

By: Christopher John Murray

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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

By: Christopher John Murray

Review: "Written to stress the crosscurrent of ideas, this cultural encyclopedia provides clearly written and authoritative articles. Thoughts, themes, people, and nations that define the Romantic Era, as well as some frequently overlooked topics, receive their first encyclopedic treatments in 850 signed articles, with bibliographies and coverage of historical antecedents and lingering influences of romanticism. Even casual browsers will discover much to enjoy here."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.

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664

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Taylor & Francis

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1579584225

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9781579584221

Book's by John Wordsworth

Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn

Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn

This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’S Poetic Destiny

This Life, This Death: Wordsworth’S Poetic Destiny

A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude

A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude

Elegy for an Age

Elegy for an Age

A Preface to Wordsworth

A Preface to Wordsworth

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

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