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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) - The Poetry of Displacement (Paperback)
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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) - The Poetry of Displacement (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as
the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is
seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised
on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in
1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth,
arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of
the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the
authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth's preoccupation
with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely
anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as
corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both
well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no
unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension
between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind
of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth's
poetry, in Simpson's phrase, a 'poetry of displacement'.
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