ISBN:
9781009363150
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 276 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shaw, Philip, 1965- Wordsworth after war
DDC:
821.7
Keywords:
Wordsworth, William Criticism and interpretation
;
Wordsworth, William - 1770-1850
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1800-1899
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Peace in literature
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English poetry History and criticism 19th century
;
Paix dans la littérature
;
Poésie anglaise - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique
;
English poetry
;
Peace in literature
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Literary criticism
;
Literary criticism
;
Critiques littéraires
Abstract:
"William Wordsworth's later poetry complicates possibilities of life and art in war's aftermath. This illuminating study provides new perspectives and reveals how his work following the end of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects a passionate, lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace. Focusing on works from between 1814 and 1822, Philip Shaw constructs a unique and compelling account of how Wordsworth, in both his ongoing poetic output and in his revisions to earlier works, sought to modify, refute, and sometimes sustain his early engagement with these issues as both an artist and a political thinker. In an engaging style, Shaw reorients our understanding of the later writings of a major British poet and the post-war literary culture in which his reputation was forged"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Conscripting "The Recluse" -- Peace out of time : The White Doe of Rylstone -- Thanksgiving after war -- "Returning, like a ghost unlaid" : Peter Bell and The Waggoner -- Violent waters : The River Duddon and Ecclesiastical Sketches -- Wordsworth After Byron : Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 -- After Wordsworth.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
