Wordsworth
The Poems of 1807
Published on 24. April 1990
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-333-42387-5 (ISBN)
Description
Part of the "Casebook" series, this book is concerned with Wordsworth's "Poems, in Two Volumes" published in 1807 which contains sonnets, lyrics and shorter poems on which his reputation now rests. The volume may be used in conjunction with the editor's edition of "Wordsworth's Poems of 1807".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-42387-5 (9780333423875)
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Content
Part 1 The early critical reception of "Poems, in Two Volumes" (1807): William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont (1807); Robert Southey (1807); Anna Seward (1807); Byron's review (1807); Francis Jeffrey's review (1807); William Wordsworth to Robert Southey (1808); Anon, cabinet, review (1808); Anon, poetical register for 1806-7, review (1811); Anon, "The Simpliciad"; "Biographia Literaria", S.T. Coleridge. Part 2 Later critical comment: Thomas Noon Ialfourd; John Stuart Mill; Walter Horatio Pater; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Andrew Cecil Bradley. Part 3 Twentieth century opinions: poems of 1807, Helen Darbishire; changing patterns of communication in Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" and 1807 "Poems", Muriel J.Mellown; resolution and independence - Wordsworth's coming of age, Albert Gerard; Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper", G.Ingli James; Wordsworth and the poetry of sincerity, David Perkins; reintegration, J.R.Watson; "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves", Brian Cosgrove; the design of Wordsworth's sonnets, G.M.Harvey; ambiguity and assertion in Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas", J.D.O'Hara; Wordsworth's "Ode" - obstinate questionings, Florence Marsh; design in the "Immortality Ode", Jared Curtis.