Wordsworth''s Poetry of Repetition - Romantic Recapitulation

This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.

Sommario

• PART I: Introductory: Repetition in the Romantic Period


• 1: The Sense and the Sound of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry


• 2: The Workings of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry


• 3: Contexts for Repetition in the Romantic Period


• PART II: Wordsworthian Recapitulation


• 4: Repetition and Conjunction: the quiet work of and and or


• 5: Conjunction, Expansion, and Sublimity


• 6: Conjunctions, Repetition, and Revision


• 7: Connection, Recognition, and Return


• 8: 'The Thorn', Tautology, and Tragic Repetition


• 9: Crafted Repetition


• 10: Resounding Voices, Habitual Haunts: Recapitulation, Specifics, and Generals


• 11: Echo and Response


• 12: Coleridge and Repetition: A Comparative Case


• 13: Conclusion: Recapitulation and Sincerity


• Bibliography

Info autore

Sarah Houghton-Walker began her career as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and has been a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College since 2007. She has published on a range of Romantic-period writers, and is also a founder and Co-Director of the Centre for John Clare Studies, based in the Cambridge University Faculty of English.

Riassunto

This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.

Testo aggiuntivo

Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition is a definitive study of the topic.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Houghton-Walker, Sarah Houghton-Walker, Sarah (Fellow of Gonville and Cai Houghton-Walker, Houghton-Walker Sarah
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.05.2023
• EAN: 9780192870483
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287048-3
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Lirica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets