Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics [electronic resource] /
Allen, S.author.
This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Poetry, Feeling and Criticism; 1 Shaftesbury, Wordsworth and Affective Critique; 2 Burke, Wordsworth and the Poet; 3 Poetry and the Liberty of Feeling; 4 Wordsworth's Ear and the Place of Aesthetic Autonomy; 5 Poetry and Embodiment; 6 Melancholy and Affirmation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index.
This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.