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The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

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Stephen Gill, Duncan Wu, James A. Butler, Lucy Newlyn, Kenneth R. Johnston, Frances Ferguson, Susan Wolfson, Judith Page, Seamus Perry, Ralph Pite, Nicholas Roe, Paul Hamilton, Joel Pace, Keith Hanley
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  • Date Published: June 2003
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521646819

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  • Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the challenges it presents. The book offers students informative supplementary material on Wordsworth's life and critical reception.

    • Essays by an international team contributors are accessible to students, but also sophisticated enough to appeal to academics
    • Comprehensive companion to the work of one of the best known and most admired British poets
    • Contains valuable supplementary material, including a chronology and a glossary of literary terms
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    "A very welcome collection of pieces from a galaxy of strong Romantic scholars..." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature

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    • Date Published: June 2003
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521646819
    • length: 322 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 155 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.53kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Chronology of Wordsworth's Life and Works
    Sources and short forms of citation
    Wordsowrth on Poetry and Imagination
    Introduction Stephen Gill
    1. Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career Nicola Trott
    2. Wordsworth's poetry to 1798 Duncan Wu
    3. Poetry, 1798–1807: lyrical ballads and poems, in two volumes James A. Butler
    4. The Prelude Lucy Newlyn
    5. The Recluse Kenneth R. Johnston
    6. Wordsworth and the meaning of taste Frances Ferguson
    7. Wordsworth's craft Susan Wolfson
    8. Gender and domesticity Judith Page
    9. The philosophic poet Stephen Gill
    10. Wordsworth and Coleridge Seamus Perry
    11. Wordsworth and the natural world Ralph Pite
    12. Politics, history, and the poems Nicholas Roe
    13. Wordsworth and Romanticism Paul Hamilton
    14. Wordsworth and America Joel Pace
    15. Guide to further reading with a note on texts Keith Hanley
    Index.

  • Editor

    Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, Oxford
    Stephen Gill is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).

    Contributors

    Stephen Gill, Duncan Wu, James A. Butler, Lucy Newlyn, Kenneth R. Johnston, Frances Ferguson, Susan Wolfson, Judith Page, Seamus Perry, Ralph Pite, Nicholas Roe, Paul Hamilton, Joel Pace, Keith Hanley

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