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"Fry argues that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth's poetry is a more fundamental and original insight: the poet is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities or significance, but rather that it simpl…
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…
This dissertation presents an untold story about the resurgence of medieval memory arts throughout the nineteenth century. Beginning in the Romantic era, I examine how these new “artificial memory” systems responded to the pressures of an expanding print market. While their init…
"Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, Ceaseless Music explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today…
Through a series of poetic responses and critical reflections, this book explores the afterlives of Wordsworth's landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in literature, philosophy and life writing, together with the insights it can offer into the writing of poetry today. It ex…
Wordsworth's Classical Undersong recounts the grammar-school training of a great Romantic revolutionary poet. His teachers were Cambridge graduates, his curriculum the Classics, his academic home a rural secondary school set in the beautiful mountains of the Lake District. But h…
Introduction : the dream of communication -- Scribble-scrabble genius : Coleridge, transcription, and the shorthand effect -- Wordsworth and bureaucratic form -- Shelley amid the age of separations; or, a poetry of ambiversion for networked life -- Keats's ways : the dark passag…
In contrast to the Greek concept of prophecy as a form of prediction, Romantic prophecy rehabilitates a version of Hebrew prophecy that involves a more ambivalent relationship to history and time. That is, while the rise of prophecy in Romanticism might—like the rise of historio…
This dissertation explores how a number of romantic writers, Wordsworth and Whitman especially, presented themselves as prophets, claiming to speak for nature. Like biblical prophets narrating prophetic calls, these writers relate how nature called them to poetry, which raises k…
