This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in ‘autonomous’ poetry’s redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
Table of Content
Introduction: Poetry, Feeling and Criticism Shaftesbury, Wordsworth and Affective Critique Burke, Wordsworth and the Poet Poetry and the Liberty of Feeling Wordsworth’s Ear and the Place of Aesthetic Autonomy Poetry and Embodiment Melancholy and Affirmation Conclusion
About the author
STUART ALLEN is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts, USA. He has published articles on Wordsworth, Romanticism and James Joyce.
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