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Author | : Richard E. Matlak |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2024-07-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040035574 |
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Based upon the testimony of Thomas Carlyle, most biographers acknowledge that Wordsworth witnessed the beheading of the journalist Antoine Gorsas in October 1793 during the Reign of Terror. But they go no further. This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier. Following a chronological arc from October 1793, when the trauma began, until its conclusion in October 1803, when Wordsworth became a poet-soldier, I examine poetic works from The Borderers (1796), the “Discharged Soldier’ (1798), the Two-Part Prelude (1799), Home at Grasmere (1800), and the Liberty sonnets (1803), to follow the Poet working through anxiety, fear, and remorse to a resolution.
Author | : RICHARD E. MATLAK |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780367715427 |
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This study reads the Poet's reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated by guilt for abandoning his French lover and their child a year earlier.
Author | : T. Brennan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230117546 |
Download Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.
Author | : G. Kim Blank |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838636008 |
Download Wordsworth and Feeling Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wordsworth and Feeling returns to Wordsworth's personal history in order to locate and contextualize some of the most remarkable poetry in the English language. In this study, G. Kim Blank details how this poetry evolves out of Wordsworth's radical subjectivity, but the most pressing feature of that subjectivity is the cluster of subjects - loss, guilt, suffering, endurance, death - which appears throughout much of his poetry up until 1802-4.
Author | : Stephen Gill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195180917 |
Download William Wordsworth's The Prelude Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
William Wordsworth's poem 'The Prelude' is a fascinating work, both as an autobiography and as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. This volume gathers together 13 essays on 'The Prelude', and is useful as a companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest poem.
Author | : William Wordsworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Houghton-Walker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2023-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192697803 |
Download Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse. By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
Author | : Jamie D. Barker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498592708 |
Download Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author argues that by using literary trauma theory in conjunction with a reader response approach, readers can gain a better understanding of how poetry can work towards building community and encouraging empowerment over oppression by establishing collectives of people who may share similar stories and experiences connected to trauma. Rather than demonstrating how the poetry may fail or trying to establish what traumatic events the speaker (or poet, in some studies) may have encountered and the significance thereof, this study focuses on how the reader may find community with the ideas represented within the poem. The poetry of various ethnicities are examined, including African American poets Amiri Baraka and Lucille Clifton, Native American poets Robin Coffee, Linda Hogan, and Peter Blue Cloud, as well as Japanese American poets Mitsuye Yamada, Keiho Soga, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Although many of these poets have had their poems examined in the past, none have been explored through this type of approach. Furthermore, very few studies have expanded upon the ideas of literary trauma theory by using reader response, and no writings have examined the idea of ambivalence in poetry as this study does.
Author | : Anthony Hecht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780689101151 |
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Author | : Alexander Freer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192599038 |
Download Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions. As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.