Wordsworth After War - Recovering Peace in the Later Poetry

Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Conscripting 'The Recluse'; 2. Peace out of time: The White Doe of Rylstone; 3. Thanksgiving after war; 4. 'Returning, like a ghost unlaid': Peter Bell and The Waggoner; 5. Violent waters: The River Duddon and Ecclesiastical Sketches; 6. Wordsworth after Byron: Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820; After Wordsworth.

About the author

Philip Shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on Romantic-period literature, specialising in literary and visual responses to the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. His books include Romantic Wars (2000), Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination (2002), The Sublime (2006/2017), and Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art (2013).

Summary

Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Foreword

A rich, illuminating study of how Wordsworth's late poetry reflects his lifelong engagement with the poetics and politics of peace.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Shaw, Philip (University of Leicester) Shaw
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009363167
• ISBN: 978-1-009-36316-7
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Literary studies: poetry and poets