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Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University. He is author of many books, including The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets: Romanticism Revised and Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe. He is coeditor of Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38 and the online publication The Collected Letters of Robert Southey.
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List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. PRODUCING A POET FOR THE PUBLIC
Chapter 1. Learning to Be a Poet of Imagination: Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper
Chapter 2. The Politics of Landscape and the Poetics of Patronage: Collecting Coleorton
PART II. SPOTS OF SPACE: MATERIALIZING MEMORY
Chapter 3. Memoirs of Scott-land, 1814-33
Chapter 4. Textual Strata and Geological Form: The Scriptorium and the Cave
PART III. THE POLITICS OF DICTION
Chapter 5. The Erotics of Influence: Wordsworth as Byron and Keats
Chapter 6. Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott: Radicalism Renewed
PART IV. LATE GENRES
Chapter 7. Narrow Cells and Stone Circles: Sonnet Form and Spiritual History
Chapter 8. Evanescence and After-Effect: The Evening Voluntaries
Coda. Elegiac Musing and Generic Mixing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University. He is author of many books, including The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets: Romanticism Revised and Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe. He is coeditor of Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38 and the online publication The Collected Letters of Robert Southey.
Summary
In Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845, Tim Fulford argues that Wordsworth's later work reveals an unexpectedly varied and innovative poet. Writing from the perspective of age, Wordsworth remodeled the poetry of his youth, creating a body of work that changed the terms of love poetry, political poetry, and the poetry of memorialization.
