This series of 102 sonnets on the history of Christianity in Britain and the progress of the Church of England from the ... that Wordsworth is celebrating the social, cultural, and even to some extent the political history of England.
The Ruined Cottage: The Brothers Michael
The editor has included a full critical introduction as well as notes at the bottom of each page to help those who are reading the poems for the first time.
Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not ...
The Music of Humanity: A Critical Study of Wordsworth's "Ruined Cottage"; Incorporating Texts from a Manuscript of 1799-1800
Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to ...
22 Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947); John Jones, The Egotistical Sublime: A History of Wordsworth's Imagination (London: Chatto and Windus, 1954).
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS.
It was 24 December , Christmas Eve , and the eve of Dorothy Wordsworth's thirty - first birthday . It was ' 1/2 past 10 o'clock ' , Dorothy ' running the heel of a stocking ' , and she and Wordsworth repeating Wordsworth's sonnets to ...
The collection, by an international team of established specialists concludes with a lucid account of the history of Wordsworth's texts, and offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading ...