Wordsworth and feeling : the poetry of an adult child
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
Print Book, English, c1995
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Associated University Presses, Madison [NJ], London, c1995
269 p. ; 24 cm.
9780838636008, 0838636004
1032776464
Introduction: "The hiding places of my power"
1. The Adult Child
2. The Poet's Progress: Early Struggles, Early Gains
3. Tintern Abbey Revisited; or, Aching Joys and Healing Thoughts
4. Down and Out in Germany: Writing in Self-Defense
5. Home Again in Grasmere
6. The Immortality Ode: Back to the Future
App. A: Wordsworth as the Lost Child
App. B: Wordsworth, Trauma, and the Poetry of Dissociation
App. C: Wordsworth, Recovery, and Writing