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Oxford The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth 2018 Edition by Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson
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 Wordsworthscholarship. 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. Table of contents : - Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: IntroductionGeoffrey Hartman: Genius LociRichard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' (1802-1815) and 'Yew-Trees' (1804-1836), Poems of ImaginationPart I: Life, Career, and Networks1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-18002: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1800-18503: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author5: C. E. J. Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political OdysseyPart II: Poetry7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842)8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842)9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 179810: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 180012: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'14: Matthew C. Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters15: Peter J. Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer17: Fiona Stafford: Wordsworth's Poetry of Place18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later PoetryPart III: 'The Recluse'19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage'21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as a Philosophical Poem23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic PoemPart IV: Poets and Poetics25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on Imagination29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies in his Experimental PoemsPart V: Inheritance and Legacy32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and Enlightenment Philosophy34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth and Science35: James A. W. Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds37: Judith W. Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind42: James Castell: Wordsworth and the 'Life of Things'Part VI: Aspects of Reception43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth CenturyRecommended ReadingIndex