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Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics
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Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics Hardcover - 2010

by Allen, S

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  • Title Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics
  • Author Allen, S
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 191
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2010-07-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0230248179.G
  • ISBN 9780230248175 / 0230248179
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry - Psychological aspects, Wordsworth, William - Criticism and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010009403
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7

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From the publisher

Defining poetry as the 'overflow of powerful feelings' and 'emotion recollected in tranquillity', Wordsworth adopts two of the key claims of British Whig aesthetics: the centrality of affect to human being, and the need to regulate said affect. Wordsworth continues that poetry is feeling and that the metered pleasure of poetry makes it possible for the reader to field emotions otherwise difficult to bear.

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist who regards poetry as a 'relatively autonomous' space in which to liberate, experiment with, and redistribute affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth investigates how poetic emotion generates human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through its acute sensitivity to feeling, can evaluate public and private life. If Whig feeling is the origin of Wordsworth's poetry, pleasure in and of itself, available to all, is its end.

About the author

STUART ALLEN is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts, USA. He has published articles on Wordsworth, Romanticism and James Joyce.