Wordsworth and the Poetry of Epitaphs
Author: D.D. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1980-06-18
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1349033391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: D.D. Devlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1980-06-18
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1349033391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joshua Scodel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780801424823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first major study of the genre, Joshua Scodel shows how English poets have used the poetic epitaph to express their views concerning the power and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality.
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Published: 1995-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780140389258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Mills-Courts
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780807116579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mills-Courts (English, SUNY at Fredonia) maintains that all poets attempt to embody meaning in words that are inherently epitaphic, and explores the strategies they employ to defend the illusion of voice and presence in their works against the disseminative forces of representation. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Published: 1814
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wordsworth's longest poem, and the only part of a projected magnum opus to be published in his lifetime, The Excursion has been neglected in favor of its autobiographical companion, The Prelude. It is however one of the great works of English Romanticism, in which Wordsworth succeeds in his object of conveying clear thoughts, lively images, and strong feelings. Through the semi-dramatic adoption of various selves he narrates the stories of a range of Lake District inhabitants, most famously in the tragic tale of the ruined cottage; airs views on the French and Industrial Revolutions (attacking the factory system and advocating universal state education); and meditates on Man, Nature, and Society. .
Author: Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1107028418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
Author: Anthony Mortimer
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783039104741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the occasion of Robert Rehder's seventieth birthday, this Festschrift pays tribute to a forceful and inspiring teacher who is both a poet himself and the author of major studies on Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens. The contributions reflect the range of Rehder's achievement with essays on Wordsworth and his contemporaries, on the American poets who have been at the centre of his teaching (Whitman, Dickinson, William Carlos Williams), and on recent figures such as Thom Gunn, and Seamus Heaney. It concludes with some appreciations of Robert Rehder's own poetry. This volume addresses all those who are concerned with poetry in the age of Wordsworth, with the poetry of our own age, and with the continuities between them. Robert Rehder has been Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, since 1985.
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I am convinced that there are three things to rejoice at in this Age--The Excursion Your Pictures, and Hazlitt's depth of Taste."--John Keats to Benjamin Robert Haydon"I have been reading Wordsworth's Excursion with many tears and prayers too. To me he is not only poet, but preacher and prophet of God's new and divine philosophy--a man raised up as a light in a dark time."--Charles KingsleyThe Excursion by William Wordsworth is a dramatic poem that advances largely through debate among the four main speakers: the Poet, the Wanderer, the Solitary, and the Pastor; the action of the poem seems to take place over five days. It was Wordsworth's second long poem, his public attempt at a "Great Poem," and his only work of any length to be read by most of his contemporaries. While The Prelude has found more favor with today's readers, The Excursion appealed to the Victorians, who embraced it, considering this influential work a source of spiritual strength in an uncertain world. This Cornell Wordsworth volume presents the first scholarly edition of The Excursion in half a century--and the first true scholarly edition of the original 1814 text. All manuscripts produced under the author's supervision are separately and completely transcribed in this edition. An introduction, a manuscript history, lists of printed verbal and nonverbal variants, extensive editors' notes, and selected photographs also chronicle the poem's full evolution. In short, this edition makes it possible, for the first time, to follow the complete compositional history of Wordsworth's epic.