This title is squarely situated at the intersection of literature and psychology. Psychologists' dicoveries about when childhood memories form, and what form they most often take, resonate throughout the works of the three writers Martens highlights.
"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"-
"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--
Acknowledgments -- Part I. Language Theory and Poetics -- 1. Wordsworth and the "Material Difference" of the "Real Language of Men" -- 2. A "Complex Scene" -- 3. "What the Poet Does" -- 4. The Poetics of Contradiction -- 5. "The True Difficulty" -- 6. "Spontaneous Overflow" Stag…
"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--.
"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--
"Gives students and scholars a new way to approach the theory and interpretation of poetry and indeed modern literature"--
"Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded second edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since th book first appeared."--Préface.
"Updated, revised, and with new manuscript material, this expanded second edition responds to the most significant critical work on Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the three decades since th book first appeared."--Preface.
Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any pa…
Wordsworth and the poetry of what we are