The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

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Stephen Gill
Cambridge University Press, 12 giu 2003 - 295 pagine
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. The volume ensures that students will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.
 

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Introduction I
1
Wordsworths poetry to 1798
22
Lyrical Ballads and Poems
38
community
55
Wordsworth and The Recluse
70
Wordsworth and the meaning of taste
90
Wordsworths craft
108
Gender and domesticity
125
Wordsworth and Coleridge
161
Wordsworth and the natural world
180
Politics history and Wordsworths poems
196
Wordsworth and Romanticism
213
reception and reform
230
Textual issues and a guide to further reading
246
Index
265
Copyright

The philosophic poet
142

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Informazioni sull'autore (2003)

Stephen Gill is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).

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