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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) The Poetry of Displacement
By David Simpson
Copyright 1987
260 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
252 Pages
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Routledge
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Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance... Read more
Acknowledgements; Citations and abbreviations; Introduction: writing in history and theory 1. ‘Gipsies’ 2. Wordsworth’s agrarian idealism: he case against urban life 3. Another guide to the lakes 4. ‘In single or in social eminence’? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere 5. ‘By conflicting passions pressed’: ‘Michael’ and ‘Simon Lee’ 6. Poets, paupers and peripatetics: the politics of sympathy 7. Structuring a subject: The Excursion; Postscript: ‘The star of eve was wanting’; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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David Simpson
