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Wordsworth's Second Nature
- A Study of the Poetry and Politics
Engelsk Paperback
Wordsworth's Second Nature
- A Study of the Poetry and Politics
Engelsk Paperback

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Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major works–in The Prelude, above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the discussion, which restores Wordsworth to both the French and English contexts in which he matured, is a consideration of his relation to Rousseau and Burke. Chandler maintains that by the time Wordsworth set forth his "program for poetry" in 1798, he had turned away from the Rousseauist idea of nature that had informed his early republican writings. He had already become a poet of what Burke called "second nature"–human nature cultivated by custom, habit, and tradition–and an opponent of the quest for first principles that his friend Coleridge could not forsake. In his analysis of the poetry, Chandler suggests that even Wordsworth's most apparently private moments, the lyrical "spots of time," ideologically embodied the uncalculated habits of an oral narrative discipline and a native English mind.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
338
ISBN-13:
9780226100814
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226100812
Udg. Dato:
15 dec 1984
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 1984
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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