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"Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833" uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth's poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly "fallow" years, 1825-1833. The poetry of this period appears in a "landscape" that includes manuscripts, streams and pathways, and Wordsworth's house and garden at Rydal Mount.
The book's design, by Karen Jacobs, echoes Robinson's argument that Wordsmith's late poetry both involves and evokes multi-layered responses.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Prefatory Fibres; Introductory Thoughts; Terracing; I. Nightly Streams; II. A Day's Ramble; III. Walks on the Terrace Attending; I. Artifice of Absorption; II. Surface Miracles; III. Scenes of Attention; IV. Season of Fancy and of Hope; Coda; Notes; Index.
About the author
Jeffrey C. Robinson is a Romanticist with an interest in Romantic and twentieth-century avant-garde poetics. After teaching for many years at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, he is now an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Robinson's recent books include "Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism"; "Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry" (coedited with Jerome Rothenberg); "Untam'd Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry"; and "Active Romanticism: The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice" (coedited with Julie Carr).
