The Simple Wordsworth

Studies in the Poems 1979-1807
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-67203-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

Reihe: RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge

First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads, as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has previously been presented as — the ‘Sage of Rydal’ at one extreme and a naïve perpetrator of poetical blunders at the other — and, the author argues, a far more exciting one. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Danby, John F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Prologue; I. Wordsworth and Simplicity; II. Three Lyrical Ballads; Simon Lee The Idiot Boy The Thorn; III. Goslar Poems IV. Wordsworth and ‘Nature’ V. The Apotheosis of the Animal; Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

John F. Danby