Wordsworth

An Inner Life
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1369-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

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'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wu, Duncan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).