Wordsworth's poetry, 1815-1845

Author(s)

• Fulford, Tim

Bibliographic Information

Wordsworth's poetry, 1815-1845

Tim Fulford

（Haney Foundation series）

University of Pennsylvania Press, c2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The later poetry of William Wordsworth, popular in his lifetime and influential on the Victorians, has, with a few exceptions, received little attention from contemporary literary critics. In Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that the later work reveals a mature poet far more varied and surprising than is often acknowledged. Examining the most characteristic poems in their historical contexts, he shows Wordsworth probing the experiences and perspectives of later life and innovating formally and stylistically. He demonstrates how Wordsworth modified his writing in light of conversations with younger poets and learned to acknowledge his debt to women in ways he could not as a young man. The older Wordsworth emerges in Fulford's depiction as a love poet of companionate tenderness rather than passionate lament. He also appears as a political poet-bitter at capitalist exploitation and at a society in which vanity is rewarded while poverty is blamed. Most notably, he stands out as a history poet more probing and more clear-sighted than any of his time in his understanding of the responsibilities and temptations of all who try to memorialize the past.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. PRODUCING A POET FOR THE PUBLIC Chapter 1. Learning to Be a Poet of Imagination: Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper Chapter 2. The Politics of Landscape and the Poetics of Patronage: Collecting Coleorton PART II. SPOTS OF SPACE: MATERIALIZING MEMORY Chapter 3. Memoirs of Scott-land, 1814-33 Chapter 4. Textual Strata and Geological Form: The Scriptorium and the Cave PART III. THE POLITICS OF DICTION Chapter 5. The Erotics of Influence: Wordsworth as Byron and Keats Chapter 6. Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott: Radicalism Renewed PART IV. LATE GENRES Chapter 7. Narrow Cells and Stone Circles: Sonnet Form and Spiritual History Chapter 8. Evanescence and After-Effect: The Evening Voluntaries Coda. Elegiac Musing and Generic Mixing Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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• NCID: BB28004778
• ISBN:
  • 9780812250817
• LCCN: 2018021458
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 334 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR5888
  • DC23 : 821/.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA05000588