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Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Release : 1987
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Book Rating : 21X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Unremarkable Wordsworth by : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Download or read book The Unremarkable Wordsworth written by Geoffrey H. Hartman. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Hartman
Release : 2015-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 650/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wordsworth’s Poetry 1787-1814 by : Geoffrey Hartman
Download or read book Wordsworth’s Poetry 1787-1814 written by Geoffrey Hartman. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama of consciousness and maturation in the growth of a poet's mind is traced from Wordsworth's earliest poems to The Excursion of 1814. Mr. Hartman follows Wordsworth's growth into self-consciousness, his realization of the autonomy of the spirit, and his turning back to nature. The apocalyptic bias is brought out, perhaps for the first time since Bradley's Oxford Lectures, and without slighting in any way his greatness as a nature poet. Rather, a dialectical relation is established between his visionary temper and the slow and vacillating growth of the humanized or sympathetic imagination. Mr. Hartman presents a phenomenology of the mind with important bearings on the Romantic movement as a whole and as confirmation of Wordsworth's crucial position in the history of English poetry. Mr. Hartman is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. "A most distinguished book, subtle, penetrating, profound."—Rene Wellek. "If it is the purpose of criticism to illuminate, to evaluate, and to send the reader back to the text for a fresh reading, Hartman has succeeded in establishing the grounds for such a renewal of appreciation of Wordsworth."—Donald Weeks, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Author : Yimon Lo
Release : 2023-02-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Musical Wordsworth by : Yimon Lo
Download or read book Musical Wordsworth written by Yimon Lo. This book was released on 2023-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Essay of 1815, Wordsworth asserts that ‘a pure and refined scheme of harmony’ must prevail in all ‘higher poetry’. This idea of a structured and complex form of ‘harmony’ was similarly noted earlier in The Prelude (1805), where Wordsworth famously claimed that the human mind is ‘framed even like the breath / And harmony of music’. Musical Wordsworth presents an original understanding of Wordsworthian harmony by examining an organised but dynamic sense of musicality that shapes his poetic theory and practice. This book is the first study to draw on music psychology and aesthetics to interpret the function and mechanism of Wordsworth’s aural structure and movement. Engaging with scholarship from the fields of literature and music, it defines Wordsworth’s poetry and the imagination through musical conceptions, and establishes various modes and forms of poetic listening as experiences of musical performance and appreciation. Each chapter explores a pair of musical abstractions – Lyricism and Musicality; Breath and Harmony; Repetition and Resonance; Expectation and Surprise; Rhythm and Dynamics; Rest and Silence. Musical Wordsworth will be of interest to students and researchers of Romantic poetry, long nineteenth-century literature, and music.
Author : John Haydn Baker
Release : 2004
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 388/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Browning and Wordsworth by : John Haydn Baker
Download or read book Browning and Wordsworth written by John Haydn Baker. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Tim Fulford
Release : 2019-02-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 818/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 by : Tim Fulford
Download or read book Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 written by Tim Fulford. This book was released on 2019-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
