Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community

by Fay, Jessica

• ISBN13: 9780198816201
• ISBN10: 0198816200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-07-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jessica Fay, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Bristol

Jessica Fay is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published articles in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, and the Modern Language Review. Her research is focused on the poetry and prose of William Wordsworth; she has a special interest in Wordsworth's relationship with his patron and friend, Sir George Beaumont.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Wordsworth's Creation of Taste
2. Quakerism, Cultivation, and the Coleorton Period
3. 'My second Self when I am gone': Legacy, Memorialization, and Incarnation
4. Pastoral Reclusion and The Excursion
5. Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Heritage
Epilogue: The Medieval Revival
Appendix I: Table of the Monastic Sites Visited and/or Studied by Wordsworth
Appendix II: Map of Monastic Sites Visited and/or Studied by Wordsworth
Bibliography