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Item Details
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DISOWNED BY MEMORY
WORDSWORTH'S POETRY OF THE 1790S |
| By: |
David Bromwich |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£19.94 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226075567 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226075563 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 November, 1998 |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
The author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s. |
| Synopsis: |
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. This text connects the accidents of Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. From these events Wordsworth developed a strong sympathy with political idealism and with the outcast and the dispossessed. The text argues that this sympathy formed the deepest motive of Wordsworth's writings of the 1790s. For example, David Bromwich sees "The Old Cumberland Beggar" as "a radical act of human solidarity" that was key to Wordsworth's development as a poet. Wordsworth's ethical act of attention to the old beggar and others not only crystallized his faith in the power of the imagination to preserve human nature, but also originated the idea of personal consciousness so crucial to modern poetry. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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