Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts - Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Return of the Visible and Romantic Ekphrasis: Wordsworth in the Visual Art Culture of Romanticism Typographic Inscription: The Art of 'Word-Preserving' in Wordsworth's Later Inscriptions 'If Mine Had Been the Painter's Hand': Wordsworth's Collaboration with Sir George Beaumont The Sonnet as Visual Poetry: Italics in 'After-Thought' The Book of Ekphrasis: Yarrow Revisited, And Other Poems 'The Marble Index of a Mind': Frontispiece Portraiture and the Image of Late Wordsworth Bibliography Index

About the author

PETER SIMONSEN received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Southern Denmark.

Summary

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

Additional text

'Through sustained passages of subtle and often illuminating close textual reading, the visual and material nature of the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic and inscriptional poetry is disclosed.' - Francesca Cauchi, Philosophy Quarterly

Report

'Through sustained passages of subtle and often illuminating close textual reading, the visual and material nature of the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic and inscriptional poetry is disclosed.' - Francesca Cauchi, Philosophy Quarterly

Product details

• Authors: P Simonsen, P. Simonsen, Peter Simonsen
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349357239
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35723-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Illustrations: X, 216 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fine Arts, Poetry, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Fine Art, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Fine arts: art forms, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection