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Wordsworth and the Empirical Dilemma

Wordsworth and the Empirical Dilemma

Hewitt, Regina L.

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Series: American University Studies, Book 120

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0820413585
ISBN13: 9780820413587
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Aug 1 1990
Pages: 254
Language: English
Departing from the familiar view of Wordsworth as an encomiast of shared ideas, this study finds him engaged in a revaluation of a consensual ideal privileged by most other heirs to British Empiricism. Hewitt argues that Wordsworth faced the isolating tendencies within his cultural tradition by accepting individual limits and that he devised a poetics to help his contemporaries explore how respect for individuality can foster a viable community. Insights from reader-response theories help Hewitt probe Wordsworth's involvement with his audience, develop new interpretations of poems from An Evening Walk to The Excursion, 1790's lyrics to 1820's sonnets, and offer a new perspective on Wordsworth's egotism and decline .

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