The Simple Wordsworth
Studies in the Poems 1979-1807
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Gothic & Romantic, British
| Author: | John F. Danby | ISBN: | 9781317205388 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | June 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | John F. Danby |
| ISBN: | 9781317205388 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | June 17, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads, as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has previously been presented as — the ‘Sage of Rydal’ at one extreme and a naïve perpetrator of poetical blunders at the other — and, the author argues, a far more exciting one. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads, as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has previously been presented as — the ‘Sage of Rydal’ at one extreme and a naïve perpetrator of poetical blunders at the other — and, the author argues, a far more exciting one. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
