{"product_id":"wordsworth-isbn-9780631206385","title":"Wordsworth","description":"This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Texts xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘Perhaps my pains might be beguil’d 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘In black Helvellyn’s inmost womb’ 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Charg’d by magic’ 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘The world is poisoned at the heart’ 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Their life is hidden with God’ 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘The vital spirit of a perfect form’ 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: October 1798-April 1799 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: May-December 1799 146\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘Serious musing and self-reproach’ 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘I yearn towards some philosophic song’ 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘That vast Abiding-place’ 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘I only look’d for pain and grief’ 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘Forbearance \u0026amp; self-sacrifice’ 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘O teach me calm submission to thy will’ 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it’s ‘Advertizement’ 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 361\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Stephen Gill, Oxford University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWordsworth: An Inner Life\u003c\/i\u003e shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's \"inner life\", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism.\" Religious Studies Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDuncan Wu \u003c\/b\u003eis a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature. His numerous publications include \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eRomanticism: An Anthology with CD-ROM\u003c\/i\u003e, (Second Edition, 1998), \u003ci\u003eRomanticism: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eRomantic Women Poets: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's \u003ci\u003eThe Five-Book Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and of William Hazlitt's \u003ci\u003eThe Plain-Speaker: Key Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), all available from Blackwell. He is also the editor of a nine volume edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Writings of William Hazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).  From his work editing \u003ci\u003eWordsworth's Juvenile Poetry (1785-1790),\u003c\/i\u003e Duncan Wu came to understand that much of the content of the poet's later great work drew on early childhood experiences, particularly delayed mourning arising from his parents' deaths. This original study is the first fully to investigate the impact of this formative experience on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. In doing so it seeks to explain the importance of Wordsworth's great epic, \u003ci\u003eThe Recluse,\u003c\/i\u003e to his work as a whole, and looks at how some of it got written and why it was left unfinished at his death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks retained by the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, and, among its numerous discoveries, presents the first annotated reading text of The \u003ci\u003eWhite Doe of Rylstone\u003c\/i\u003e (1808) with its important 'Advertizement'. Written in an accessible manner, this revealing study will be of great interest to students and researchers of Wordsworth's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990504128741,"sku":"NP9780631206385","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631206385.jpg?v=1761788093","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wordsworth-isbn-9780631206385","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}