160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworth’s poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poet’s early years were primarily irreligious. She argues that this idea, based on the equation of Christianity with Anglicanism, discounts the richly varied theological landscape of Wordsworth’s youth. Reading Wordsworth’s poetry in the context of the... Read more
Preface, Heidi J. Snow; Introduction, Heidi J. Snow; Chapter 1 Identifying and Identifying with the Poor, Heidi J. Snow; Chapter 2 Cockermouth and the Anglican Orthodox Poor System, Heidi J. Snow; Chapter 3 An Evangelical Perspective: Wordsworth and the Problem of Suffering, Heidi J. Snow; Chapter 4 Quakers and the Poor, Heidi J. Snow; Chapter 5 The Excursion and the Compassionate Community, Heidi J. Snow Appendix, Heidi J. Snow;
Biography
Heidi J. Snow is Associate Professor of English at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, USA.
'William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty provides a helpful, introductory, theological, and poetic lexicon by which to better understand how poverty can be defined and engaged.' Journal of Markets and Morality 'Heidi J. Snow's William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty is, in a word, rich: rich because it provides a new approach and a compelling argument to understanding Wordsworth's religious sympathies; rich because it offers fresh readings of many of his poems, including The Excursion; and rich because it is written with clarity, insight, scholarship, and sincerity.' Wordsworth Circle '... [Snow's] book is helpful in showing how his poems reflect the best of their ideas about poverty.' Anglican & Episcopal History '[This book is] of manifest importance for its criticism of the imprecise understanding of Christianity that has long stymied serious historicist study of Wordsworth. One, moreover, comes away from this book sensing that it may point the way for a broader reconsideration of the theological underpinnings of the whole of Wordsworth's oeuvre.' Literature and Theology
