The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth

by Gravil, Richard; Robinson, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780198828235
• ISBN10: 0198828233
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-09-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship.

This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

Author Biography

Richard Gravil, Chairman, The Wordsworth Conference Foundation,Daniel Robinson, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Widener University

Richard Gravil is Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010).

Daniel Robinson is Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Widener University. He co-edited A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (1999) with Paula Feldman, and Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (2001) wih William Richey. He is the editor of Poems, The Works of Mary Robinson (2 vols, 2009) and author of Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (2014), William Wordswoth's Poetry: A Reader's Guide (2010), and The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson
Genius Loci, Geoffrey Hartman
Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' (1802-1815) and 'Yew-Trees' (1804-1836), Poems of Imagination, Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson
Part I: Life, Career, and Networks
1. The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1800, Nicholas Roe
2. Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1800-1850, K. E. Smith
3. Wordsworth and Literary Friendship, Felicity James
4. Wordsworth as Professional Author, Brian Goldberg
5. Itinerant Wordsworth, C. E. J. Simons
6. Wordsworth's Political Odyssey, Simon Bainbridge
Part II: Poetry
7. The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842), Quentin Bailey
8. The Borderers (1796-1842), Frederick Burwick
9. Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 1798, Daniel Robinson
10. 'Poem upon the Wye', Susan J. Wolfson
11. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 1800, Jason N. Goldsmith
12. The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes, Gregory Leadbetter
13. 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', Michael O'Neill
14. Wordsworth's Characters, Matthew C. Brennan
15. The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems, Peter J. Manning
16. The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer, Daniel Robinson
17. Wordsworth's Poetry of Place, Fiona Stafford
18. Wordsworth's Later Poetry, Pamela Woof
Part III: 'The Recluse'
19. The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems, Richard Gravil
20. The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage', Paul H. Fry
21. The 'I' in The Prelude, Anthony John Harding
22. The Prelude as a Philosophical Poem, Mark J. Bruhn
23. The Prelude as History, Philip Shaw
24. The Excursion as Dialogic Poem, Jacob Risinger
Part IV: Poets and Poetics
25. Wordsworth's English Poets, Jonathon Shears
26. Wordsworth and Sensibility, Duncan Wu
27. Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry, Raimonda Modiano
28. Wordsworth and Coleridge on Imagination, Alexander Schlutz
29. Wordsworth's Prosody, Ruth Abbott
30. Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre, Charles Mahoney
31. Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies in his Experimental Poems, Don Bialostosky
Part V: Inheritance and Legacy
32. Wordsworth and Classical Humanism, John Cole
33. Wordsworth and Enlightenment Philosophy, Allison Dushane
34. Wordsworth and Science, Marilyn Gaull
35. Wordsworth and Landscape, James A. W. Heffernan
36. Wordsworth and Shepherds, Terry McCormick
37. Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality, Judith W. Page
38. Wordsworth and Nation, Stephen C. Behrendt
39. Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking, Adam Potkay
40. Wordsworth on Religious Experience, Jonathan Roberts
41. Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind, Peter Newbon
42. Wordsworth and the 'Life of Things', James Castell
Part VI: Aspects of Reception
43. Wordsworth among the Romantics, Matthew Scott
44. 'Intimations' in America, Richard Gravil
45. Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets, John Powell Ward
46. Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism, Andrew Bennett
47. Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century, Bruce E. Graver
Recommended Reading
Index