Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception / Edition 1

by Brian R Bates

Overview

Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848931961
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Series:	The History of the Book , #10
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Reframing Lyrical Ballads (1800/1798); Chapter 2 Textual Travelling in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads; Chapter 3 Short-Circuiting Wordsworth’s 1807 Poems : Richard Mant’s the Simpliciad; Chapter 4 Wordsworth’s 'Library of Babel’: The Excursion and the 1815 Poems; Chapter 5 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; Chapter 6 J. H. Reynolds’s ‘Peter Bell’ and the Wordsworthian Reputation; Chapter 7 The River Duddon Volume and Wordsworth’s Canonical Ascent;