Language and relationship in Wordsworth's writing
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Language and relationship in Wordsworth's writing
(Studies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature)
Longman, 1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 264-272
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780582061941
Description
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) needs little introduction as the central figure in Romantic poetry and a crucial influence in the development of poetry generally. This broad-ranging survey redefines the variety of his writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period. It discusses many of Wordsworth's later poems, comparing his work with that of his regional contemporaries as well as major writers such as Scott. The key theme of relationship, both between characters within poems and between poet and reader, is explored through Wordsworth's construction of community and his use of power relationships. A serious discussion of the place of sexual feeling in his writing is also included.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on texts
Introduction
1. Poetry, language and difference
2. Community
3. Power
4. Familial authority
5. Vision and times: a critique of reading
6. The collaborative imagination: time and textuality in some later poems
Bibliography
Index
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: hbk ISBN 9780582061958
Description
This broad-raning survey aims to redefine the variety of Wordsworth's writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Poetry, language and difference: dialogues with the dead - conversation and cultural bequest
- speaking to the dead - cultural bequest
- conversation and cultural bequest (ii) - "Matthew". Part 2 Community: "poems on the naming of places"
- aesthetic and economic values - "Michael"
- dialogue and community - "The Brothers"
- the communal and the oral (i) - the ballad debate
- the communal and the oral (ii) - "The Thorn"
- community and conversation - "Goody Blake and Harry Gill"
- community and politics
- "Home at Grasmere" - utopias and dead-ends. Part 3 Power: dispersing power - taste
- power and knowledge - (i) history
- power and knowledge - (ii) education
- sequence and syntax
- the discourse of relationship. Part 4 Familial authority: nature, desire and guilt
- paternity and its discontents
- childhood and socialization
- female solitude - "Louisa", "To a Young Lady"
- daughters and writers - "The Triad". Part 5 Vision and time - a critique of metaphor: figuration and habit
- Wordsworth and Scott - "The White Doe of Rylstone"
- figuration and narrative
- memory, figuration, narrative
- erasing the visual
- art and the visual. Part 6 The collaborative imagination - place, time and textuality in some later poems: designs and intentions
- the dispersal of the self
- language and the local
- the Yarrow poems
- collaboration and patronage - Wordsworth and Beaumont.
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