Wordsworth s Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic - Receptio

Wordsworth's process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth's poetry.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Reframing Lyrical Ballads (1800/1798); Chapter 2 Textual Travelling in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads; Chapter 3 Short-Circuiting Wordsworth’s 1807 Poems : Richard Mant’s the Simpliciad; Chapter 4 Wordsworth’s 'Library of Babel’: The Excursion and the 1815 Poems; Chapter 5 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; Chapter 6 J. H. Reynolds’s ‘Peter Bell’ and the Wordsworthian Reputation; Chapter 7 The River Duddon Volume and Wordsworth’s Canonical Ascent;

About the author

Brian R. Bates

Summary

Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Brian R Bates
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138661639
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66163-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The History of the Book
• 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, Literary studies: poetry and poets