Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790sUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 M04 15 - 186 páginas Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In Disowned by Memory, David Bromwich connects the accidents of Wordsworth's life with the originality of his writing, showing how the poet's strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed the deepest motive of his writings of the 1790s. "This very Wordsworthian combination of apparently low subjects with extraordinary 'high argument' makes for very rewarding, though often challenging reading."—Kenneth R. Johnston, Washington Times "Wordsworth emerges from this short and finely written book as even stranger than we had thought, and even more urgently our contemporary."—Grevel Lindop, Times Literary Supplement "[Bromwich's] critical interpretations of the poetry itself offer readers unusual insights into Wordworth's life and work."—Library Journal "An added benefit of this book is that it restores our faith that criticism can actually speak to our needs. Bromwich is a rigorous critic, but he is a general one whose insights are broadly applicable. It's an intellectual pleasure to rise to his complexities."—Vijay Seshadri, New York Times Book Review |
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... feeling close to that of tragedy . In his truest writing , in poems ostensibly about himself as in those about other persons , we are made to feel a human dignity that is prior to the moral language in which it is rendered normative ...
... feeling close to that of tragedy . In his truest writing , in poems ostensibly about himself as in those about other persons , we are made to feel a human dignity that is prior to the moral language in which it is rendered normative ...
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... feeling , as I fear , The weakness of a human love for days Disowned by memory . He does not pretend to know the meaning of those days . Yet he knows that the life he tells of belonged to childhood , to " the radiance which was once so ...
... feeling , as I fear , The weakness of a human love for days Disowned by memory . He does not pretend to know the meaning of those days . Yet he knows that the life he tells of belonged to childhood , to " the radiance which was once so ...
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... feeling of attachment as vividly as love . Thus he comes to Paris in 1792 , soon after the September massacres , regretting that the catastrophe is " Divided from me by one little month , " but he finds the sensations of the killings ...
... feeling of attachment as vividly as love . Thus he comes to Paris in 1792 , soon after the September massacres , regretting that the catastrophe is " Divided from me by one little month , " but he finds the sensations of the killings ...
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... feeling , the old Cumberland beggar , has no property and no place to call his own ; the persons who are brought into relation by his presence must , in order to care for him , suspend all ordinary categories of status and rooted feeling ...
... feeling , the old Cumberland beggar , has no property and no place to call his own ; the persons who are brought into relation by his presence must , in order to care for him , suspend all ordinary categories of status and rooted feeling ...
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... feeling or sympathy makes itself memorable in its first moment — always a moment of shock when it comes from an unexpected source . This explains the far from customary interest that his poetry takes in the very old and the very young ...
... feeling or sympathy makes itself memorable in its first moment — always a moment of shock when it comes from an unexpected source . This explains the far from customary interest that his poetry takes in the very old and the very young ...
Contenido
Alienation and Belonging to Humanity | 23 |
Political Justice in The Borderers | 44 |
The French Revolution and Tintern Abbey | 69 |
Moral Relations in the Preface and Two Ballads | 92 |
The Trial of Individuality | 110 |
Historical Catastrophe and Personal Memory | 139 |
Conclusion | 175 |
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Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s David Bromwich Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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