William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic - Contesting Poetry After Waterloo

In providing a comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth (1814-1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts.

List of contents

1. Cockney excursions; 2. Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode': An engaged poetics and the horrors of war; 3. 'This Potter-Don-Juan': 'Peter Bell' in 1819; 4. Thinking rivers: The flow of influence, Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley; 5. Late 'Late Wordsworth'; 6. Postscript: Wordsworth in 1850: The Prelude, 'this posthumous yet youthful work'.

About the author

Jeffrey Cox is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author and editor of ten volumes, including Romanticism in the Shadow of War (2014) and the award-winning Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School (1998).

Summary

In providing a comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth (1814–1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts.

Foreword

Comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Cox, Jeffrey (University of Colorado Boulder) Cox, Cox Jeffrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2023
• EAN: 9781108931236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-93123-6
• No. of pages: 293
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets