Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics
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.
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Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics
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.
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Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

by S. Allen
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

by S. Allen

Paperback(1st ed. 2010)

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349320424
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 02/11/2016
Edition description: 1st ed. 2010
Pages: 191
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

STUART ALLEN is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts, USA. He has published articles on Wordsworth, Romanticism and James Joyce.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Poetry, Feeling and Criticism Shaftesbury, Wordsworth and Affective Critique Burke, Wordsworth and the Poet Poetry and the Liberty of Feeling Wordsworth's Ear and the Place of Aesthetic Autonomy Poetry and Embodiment Melancholy and Affirmation Conclusion
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