The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-882823-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1513 g

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship.

This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gravil, Richard

Robinson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Genius Loci

- Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' (1802-1815) and 'Yew-Trees' (1804-1836), Poems of Imagination

- Part I: Life, Career, and Networks

- 1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1800

- 2: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1800-1850

- 3: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship

- 4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author

- 5: C. E. J. Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth

- 6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political Odyssey

- Part II: Poetry

- 7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842)

- 8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842)

- 9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 1798

- 10: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'

- 11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 1800

- 12: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes

- 13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'

- 14: Matthew C. Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters

- 15: Peter J. Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems

- 16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer

- 17: Fiona Stafford: Wordsworth's Poetry of Place

- 18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later Poetry

- Part III: 'The Recluse'

- 19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems

- 20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage'

- 21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude

- 22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as a Philosophical Poem

- 23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History

- 24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic Poem

- Part IV: Poets and Poetics

- 25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets

- 26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility

- 27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry

- 28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on Imagination

- 29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody

- 30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre

- 31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies in his Experimental Poems

- Part V: Inheritance and Legacy

- 32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism

- 33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and Enlightenment Philosophy

- 34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth and Science

- 35: James A. W. Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape

- 36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds

- 37: Judith W. Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality

- 38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation

- 39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking

- 40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience

- 41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind

- 42: James Castell: Wordsworth and the 'Life of Things'

- Part VI: Aspects of Reception

- 43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics

- 44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America

- 45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets

- 46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism

- 47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century

- Recommended Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Gravil is Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010).

Daniel Robinson is Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Widener University. He co-edited A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (1999) with Paula Feldman, and Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (2001) wih William Richey. He is the editor of Poems, The Works of Mary Robinson (2 vols, 2009) and author of Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (2014), William Wordswoth's Poetry: A Reader's Guide (2010), and The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (2011).