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William Wordsworth, second-generation romantic : contesting poetry after Waterloo

Title
William Wordsworth, second-generation romantic : contesting poetry after Waterloo / Jeffrey N. Cox.
Author
Cox, Jeffrey N.,
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Description
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Receiving a mixed reception at best, The Excursion was still recognized as the period's most significant bid to create a major philosophical poem, an epic for the post-revolutionary age. Wordsworth, as the co-author of Lyrical Ballads and the creator of Poems in Two Volumes, had established himself as a lyric poet. Had he early on published The Borderers (1796-97) or the 1805 Prelude, his profile as a poet-and perhaps our sense of romanticism-would have been different: rather than elevating lyric to the heart of his corpus, he would have been seen attempting the two traditionally central forms of tragedy and epic"--
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cockney Excursions -- Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' : An Engaged Poetics and the Horrors of War -- 'This Potter-Don-Juan' : Peter Bell in 1819 -- Thinking Rivers : The Flow of Influence, Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley -- Late 'Late Wordsworth' -- Postscript: Wordsworth in 1850 : The Prelude, 'this posthumous yet youthful work'
Call Number
JFE 21-8004
ISBN
  • 9781108837613
  • 1108837611
LCCN
2020049481
OCLC
1204139734
Author
Cox, Jeffrey N., author.
Title
William Wordsworth, second-generation romantic : contesting poetry after Waterloo / Jeffrey N. Cox.
Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 131.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Other Form:
Online version: Cox, Jeffrey N. William Wordsworth, second-generation romantic Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108946698 (DLC) 2020049482
Research Call Number
JFE 21-8004
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