Stephen Gill (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

Herausgeber: Gill, Stephen; Stephen, Gill

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a wide-ranging account of the life and career of one of the most famous Romantic poets.

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Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780521646819
• ISBN-10: 0521646812
• Artikelnr.: 22046834

Autorenporträt

Stephen Gill is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology of Wordsworth's Life and Works
Sources and short forms of citation
Wordsowrth on Poetry and Imagination
Introduction Stephen Gill
1. Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career Nicola Trott
2. Wordsworth's poetry to 1798 Duncan Wu
3. Poetry, 1798¿1807: lyrical ballads and poems, in two volumes James A. Butler
4. The Prelude Lucy Newlyn
5. The Recluse Kenneth R. Johnston
6. Wordsworth and the meaning of taste Frances Ferguson
7. Wordsworth's craft Susan Wolfson
8. Gender and domesticity Judith Page
9. The philosophic poet Stephen Gill
10. Wordsworth and Coleridge Seamus Perry
11. Wordsworth and the natural world Ralph Pite
12. Politics, history, and the poems Nicholas Roe
13. Wordsworth and Romanticism Paul Hamilton
14. Wordsworth and America Joel Pace
15. Guide to further reading with a note on texts Keith Hanley
Index.