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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IN CONTEXT William Wordsworth’s poetry responded to the enormous literary, political,cultural,technologicalandsocialchangesthatthepoetlived throughduringhislifetime(1770‒1850),andtohisowntransforma- tion from young radical inspired by the French Revolution to Poet Laureate and supporter of the establishment. The poet of the ‘ego- tistical sublime’ who wrote the pioneering autobiographical master- piece,ThePrelude,andwhoseworkisremarkableforitsinvestigation of personal impressions, memories and experiences, is also the poet whoiscriticallyengagedwiththeculturalandpoliticaldevelopments ofhisera.WilliamWordsworthinContextpresentsthirty-fiveconcise chaptersoncontextscrucialforanunderstandingandappreciationof this leading Romantic poet. It focuses on his life, circle and poetic composition;onhisreceptionandinfluence;onthesignificanceoflate eighteenth-andearlynineteenth-centuryliterarycontexts;andonthe historical, political, scientific and philosophical issues that helped to shapeWordsworth’spoetryandprose. andrew bennett isProfessorofEnglishandDirectoroftheCentre for Romantic and Victorian Studies at the University of Bristol. HispublicationsincludeRomanticPoetsandtheCultureofPosterity (Cambridge, 1999), Wordsworth Writing (Cambridge, 2007), Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009) and, with Nicholas Royle,AnIntroductiontoLiterature,CriticismandTheory(4th edn, 2009)andThisThingCalledLiterature:Reading,Thinking,Writing (2015). WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IN CONTEXT edited by ANDREW BENNETT UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107028418 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata WilliamWordsworthinContext/editedbyAndrewBennett. pages cm.–(LiteratureinContext) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-02841-8(hardback) 1. Wordsworth,William,1770–1850–Criticismandinterpretation. I. Bennett,Andrew,1960December2–editor. pr5888.w455 2014 8210.7–dc23 2014034657 isbn978-1-107-02841-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Listofillustrations pageviii Notesoncontributors ix Preface xvii Chronology xix Listofabbreviations xxvi parti life and works 1 1. Wordsworthandbiography 3 StephenGill 2. TheWordsworthcircle 10 SusanM.Levin 3. DorothyWordsworth 19 JudithW.Page 4. Compositionandrevision 27 SallyBushell 5. Prose 38 TimMilnes partii reception and influence 45 6. Thecriticalreception,1793–1806 47 DavidHiggins 7. Thecriticalreception,1807–1818 54 PeterSimonsen 8. Thecriticalreception,1819–1850 61 RichardCronin v vi Contents 9. Englishpoetry,1900–1930 69 MichaelO’Neill 10. Wordsworthnow 78 MaureenN.McLane partiii literary traditions 89 11. Eighteenth-centurypoetry 91 KevisGoodman 12. Theballadtradition 101 DanielCook 13. Thepastoral-georgictradition 111 DavidFairer 14. Thepopulartradition 119 AnnWierdaRowland 15. Elegy 127 PaulH.Fry 16. Thesonnet 136 DanielRobinson 17. Autobiography 145 JoshuaWilner 18. Epitaphsandinscriptions 152 SamanthaMatthews 19. Sensibility,sympathyandsentiment 161 JamesChandler 171 partiv cultural and historical contexts 20. Revolution 173 JohnBugg 21. Povertyandcrime 182 TobyR.Benis 22. Europe 190 MichaelFerber Contents vii 23. War 199 SimonBainbridge 24. Natureandtheenvironment 207 ScottHess 25. London 215 ChristopherStokes 26. Familyandfriendship 224 AnneD.Wallace 27. Education 232 FrancesFerguson 28. Animals 241 KurtFosso 29. Philosophy 250 StuartAllen 30. Religion 259 JonathanRoberts 31. Thesenses 267 NoelJackson 32. Language 275 AlexanderRegier 33. Thesublime 283 PhilipShaw 34. Walkingandtravel 291 RobinJarvis 35. Spectacle,paintingandthevisual 300 SophieThomas Furtherreading 308 Index 325 Illustrations 1. AmosGreen,‘TownEnd’(c.1806).Imagereproducedby kindpermissionoftheWordsworthTrust,DoveCottage, Grasmere. page22 2. Diagramofmanuscriptpagesfrom‘OldManTravelling’ (DCms 13,2vand3r). 32 3. Manuscriptpagesfrom‘DescriptionofaBeggar’(DCms 13, 2vand3r).Imagereproducedbykindpermissionofthe WordsworthTrust,DoveCottage,Grasmere. 33 4. SirGeorgeBeaumont,PeeleCastleinaStorm(1805).Image reproducedbykindpermissionoftheWordsworthTrust, DoveCottage,Grasmere. 305 viii
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