Overview

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the 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 Wordsworth scholarship. 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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Richard Gravil (Chairman, Chairman, The Wordsworth Conference Foundation) ,  Daniel Robinson (Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Widener University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.694kg
ISBN:  

9780199662128

ISBN 10:   0199662126
Pages:   896
Publication Date:   22 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Introduction Geoffrey Hartman: Genius Loci Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' and 'Yew-Trees', Poems of Imagination Part I: Life, Career, and Networks 1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1798 2: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1799-1850 3: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship 4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author 5: Christopher Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth 6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political Odyssey Part II: Poetry 7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842) 8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842) 9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798) 10: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'; or, 'Lines, written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, On revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798' 11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800) 12: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes 13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' 14: Matthew Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters 15: Peter Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems 16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer 17: Fiona Stafford: Poetry and Place from An Evening Walk to Yarrow Revisited 18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later Poetry Part III: 'The Recluse' 19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems 20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage' 21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude 22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as Philosophy 23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History 24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic Poem Part IV: Poets and Poetics 25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets 26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility 27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Poetic Theory 28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on 'Imagination' 29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody 30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre 31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies Part V: Inheritance and Legacy 32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism 33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and the Enlightenment 34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth, Science, and Mathematics 35: James Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape 36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds 37: Judith Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality 38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation 39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking 40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience 41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind 42: James Castell: Wordsworth and 'the Life of Things' Part VI: Reception 43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics 44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America 45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets 46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism 47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century Recommended Reading

Reviews

A long and overwhelmingly wondrous experience that touched me as very few works of secondary literature ever have. Leslie Brisman, Review 19

provides rich explorations of Wordsworths oeuvre, together with well-informed discussions of his inheritance, legacy and reception. Pamela Clemit, The Times Literary Supplement A long and overwhelmingly wondrous experience that touched me as very few works of secondary literature ever have. Leslie Brisman, Review 19

Author Information

After a career teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Canada, Poland, and England, Richard Gravil is now Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010). For ten years he co-edited Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and his numerous edited and co-edited books, including Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel (Ashgate, 2001) and The Republic of Poetry: Poetic Continuities from Bradstreet to Plath (a special issue of Symbiosis, 2003). Daniel Robinson is Professor of English at Widener University. He is the co-editor (with Paula R. Feldman) of A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (OUP, 1999) and (with William Richey) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); the editor of the complete poetry of Mary Robinson for The Works of Mary Robinson (Pickering and Chatto, 2009); and the author of William Wordsworth's Poetry (Continuum, 2010), The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (Palgrave, 2011), and Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (University of Iowa Press, 2014). He is working on a new edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge for Bloomsbury and is one of the team of editors working on OUP's forthcoming Anna Letitia Barbauld: Collected Works.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions