Simple Wordsworth - Studies in the Poems 1979-1807

Informationen zum Autor John F. Danby Zusammenfassung First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads , as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has previously been presented as — the ‘Sage of Rydal’ at one extreme and a naïve perpetrator of poetical blunders at the other — and, the author argues, a far more exciting one. This book will be of interest to students of literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Prologue; I. Wordsworth and Simplicity; II. Three Lyrical Ballads; Simon Lee The Idiot Boy The Thorn; III. Goslar Poems IV. Wordsworth and ‘Nature’ V. The Apotheosis of the Animal; Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: John F. Danby, Danby John F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138672024
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67202-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: RLE: Wordsworth and Coleridge
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets