Duncan Wu

Wordsworth

An Inner Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth s poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.
Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth s great poetry.
Explains the importance of the poet s great, unfinished epic The Recluse to his work as a whole.
Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.
Contains the first annotated text of The White Doe of Rylstone .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781405113694
• ISBN-10: 1405113693
• Artikelnr.: 13612578

Autorenporträt

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature. His numerous publications include A Companion to Romanticism (1998), Romanticism: An Anthology with CD-ROM, (Second Edition, 1998), Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995), Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's The Five-Book Prelude (1997) and of William Hazlitt's The Plain-Speaker: Key Essays (1998), all available from Blackwell. He is also the editor of a nine volume edition of The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xii
A Note on Texts xiv
Abbreviations xv
1 'Perhaps my pains might be beguil'd 1
2 'In black Helvellyn's inmost womb' 20
3 'Charg'd by magic' 43
4 'The world is poisoned at the heart' 69
5 'Their life is hidden with God' 88
6 'The vital spirit of a perfect form' 118
Part I: October 1798-April 1799 118
Between Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134
Part II: May-December 1799 146
7 'Serious musing and self-reproach' 167
8 'I yearn towards some philosophic song' 189
9 'That vast Abiding-place' 210
10 'I only look'd for pain and grief' 231
11 'Forbearance & self-sacrifice' 257
12 'O teach me calm submission to thy will' 275
Epilogue 303
Appendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it's 'Advertizement'
316
Bibliography 347
Index 361

Rezensionen

"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight." Professor Stephen Gill, Oxford University

" Wordsworth: An Inner Life shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar." Times Literary Supplement

"This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts." Times Higher Education Supplement

"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth s "inner life", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism." Religious Studies Review