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Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833: Fibres of These Thoughts

Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833: Fibres of These Thoughts

Robinson, Jeffrey C.

Hardcover

Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

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ISBN10: 1783089407
ISBN13: 9781783089406
Publisher: Anthem Pr
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 2.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.00 Depth: 11.70
Language: English

Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833 uses extensive manuscript study of Wordsworth's poems to present, for the first time, an account of his poetics during the supposedly fallow years, 1825-1833. Wordsworth wrote no manifestos during the later years and as a result the book turns to a manuscript page, unique among his dozens of notebooks, that when read spatially and in conjunction with other manuscripts and poems from the same period reveals a poetics in the making. 'Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth 1825-1833' develops a radical process of reading and interpreting, relying less on discursive prose and more on the conscious acknowledgement of the play of signifiers on the manuscript page that has led Robinson to capture a world of Wordsworth (1825-1833) beginning with the manuscript and spreading outwards to include the geography and topography relevant to his writing, the dwellings in which he worked, the well-known cottage industry of amanuenses who helped him produce his poems, the contemporary journals and poems of his sister Dorothy Wordsworth, and the social issues (Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform) that often occasioned them. Finally, the book presents a cluster of more-or-less unread poems but most worthy of inclusion in the Wordsworth canon.

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