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Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry
Dialogues with the Dead

Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Author: Tim Fulford, De Montfort University, Leicester

Date Published: June 2023
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009320795

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Tim Fulford provides detailed readings of a range of little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth to the one we are used to. This newly-revealed Wordsworth continued experimenting with form, genre and style as his career progressed so as to ponder the challenging experiences presented by later life. Fulford invites the reader to engage, through Wordsworth's poetry, with such broadly-felt concerns as quarantine, isolation, mental illness and bereavement. Focused yet broad in chronological scope, this study also considers the literature of Wordsworth's old age in relation to his earlier work.
- Enables readers at a range of levels to participate in the recent turn in critical focus towards Wordsworth's later works, revealing an alternative figure to the one we are used to
- Investigates lateness and late-life, late-career writing, helping the reader to think about the poetry of old age and the relation of writers' late work to their earlier work and life
- Offers a Wordswortth who enables us to think through difficult issues and experiences that have recently become all too common, including living with lockdown, isolation, mental illness and bereavement
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- Date Published: June 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009320795
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The Death Zone: Wordsworth, Scott and Davy on Helvellyn
2. Chronicle of a Death Untold: Wordsworth's 'Epistle to Sir George Beaumont'
3. Wordsworth in Homage: Elegizing the Lyrical Ballad
4. Wordsworth at Sea: Lockdown and Lunacy in Two Poems From the 1830s
5. Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth's Late Memorials
6. Wordsworth's Bardic Vacation: Invoking the Spiritual in the Age of Steam
7. Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers: Late Lyrical Ballads
8. An Aged Man Writes About an Aged Man: Wordsworth's Last Poems and the New Poor Law.
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Tim Fulford, De Montfort University, Leicester
Tim Fulford is the author of many books and articles on the literature and history of the Romantic Period (1780-1840), and is the editor of The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022). His monograph Wordsworth's Poetry 1815-45 (2019) won the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for Literary Scholarship 2020. His edition The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy (co-edited with Sharon Ruston) (2020) won an honourable mention in the MLA biennial Morton N. Cohen Award For A Distinguished Edition Of Letters.