Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Sincerity
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Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Sincerity
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Author : David Perkins
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 1964
Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Sincerity written by David Perkins and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Sincerity categories.
This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, but Wordsworth as part of a large historical movement in poetry, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present day. It concentrates on the difficult, much discussed, but little analyzed problem of "sincerity" in poetry, which it treats both critically and historically, as a demand relatively new in Wordsworth's time and still with us. It contains an extended criticism of Wordsworth's later poems, and explores the vexing question of why the mode of his poetry changed as he grew older. The author shows that the ideal of sincerity has influenced poets, critics, and common readers from Wordsworth to now, and describes the problems raised for poets by this new challenge. The first problem is the adequacy of language--does the very structure and fact of language stand as an obstacle to a complete sincerity? Perkins says: "One can hardly explain the history of poetic style or, indeed, of literature since Wordsworth, unless one keeps in mind that there has been a continuing mistrust of language. By words, it is feared, we chop realities into categories. The categories are arbitrary, or, even if they are not, their generality strips our experience of its unique aspects." Another problem raised by the challenge of sincerity is the distrust of poetic form. How can you write with a personal sincerity when you have to use meters and stanzas? Or, more fundamentally, how can you be honest to the complexity and uncertainty of your own experience, when a poem must always be more limited than the consciousness from which it arises? Still another problem is the distrust of poetic conventions and traditions. The author says, "The wish to be sincere is challenged and baffled by the fact that poetry is a learned performance, that all poetic expression depends on traditions and conventions peculiar to the art and inherited from the past...Yet if you imitate the great achievements of the past, how can your poem be thought a sincere personal utterance? The question of imitation is only the most obvious result of this anxiety. For a fanatic sincerity may suppose that merely to be influenced by other writers--in fact, to be influenced by anything at all--somehow clouds the purity of self-expression."
Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Sincerity
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Author : Dexter Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Sincerity S Shadow
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Author : Deborah FORBES
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Sincerity S Shadow written by Deborah FORBES and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Poetry categories.
In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," poets in English have sought to represent a "sincere" self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures. Self-representation never achieves final sincerity, but rather produces an array of "sincerity effects" that give form to poetry's exploration of self. In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index From the Conclusion "In spite of modern experiments in communal authorship, writing poetry remains one of the most individual of acts, and yet, because it provides the ground upon which the paradoxes of self-consciousness can move most freely, one of the acts most skeptical about the authority of any individual claim to self-understanding. . . . In undertaking its experiments, poetry may separate itself from certain contexts (economic, political, historical), but is itself as local and concrete as these contexts, an experience as well as a meditation on our experiences. In its particularity, its flexibility, its sensual and sonic complexity, its consideration of the extra-rational experiences of pleasure and desire, and above all in the ways in which it speaks with both more and less authority, more and less presence than an actual human voice, poetry offers us the experience of the unknown at the core of proposed self-knowledge. This is lyric poetry's enduring -- though not sole -- claim on us."
Professing Sincerity
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Author : Susan B. Rosenbaum
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2007
Professing Sincerity written by Susan B. Rosenbaum and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.
Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Epitaphs
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Author : D.D. Devlin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1980-06-18
Wordsworth And The Poetry Of Epitaphs written by D.D. Devlin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-06-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Poems Of William Wordsworth Collected Reading Texts From The Cornell Wordsworth Volume I
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Author : Jared R. Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Poems Of William Wordsworth Collected Reading Texts From The Cornell Wordsworth Volume I written by Jared R. Curtis and has been published by Humanities-Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with History categories.
This is a collection of William Wordsworth's poetry.
Romanticism Sincerity And Authenticity
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Author : T. Milnes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Romanticism Sincerity And Authenticity written by T. Milnes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The categories of authenticity and sincerity, treated sceptically since the early twentieth century, remain indispensable for the study of Romantic literature and culture. This book, focusing on authors including Wordsworth, Macpherson and Austen, highlights their complexities, showing how they can become meaningful to current critical debates.
Wordsworth Poems
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Author : William Wordsworth
language : en
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Release Date : 2014-04-09
Wordsworth Poems written by William Wordsworth and has been published by Everyman's Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Poetry categories.
Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) brought to our literature, it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of human lives in the context of nature that have most influenced our cultural climate. Here, collected in this volume, are Wordsworth’s finest works, some of the most beautiful poems ever written: from the famous lyrical ballads, including “The Tables Turned” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” to the sonnets and narrative poems, to excerpts from his magnum opus, The Preludes. By turning away from mythological subjects and artificial diction toward the life and language around him, Wordsworth acquired for poetry the strength and new sources of inspiration that have allowed it to survive and flourish in the modern world.
Wordsworth And The Romantic Search For An Audience
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Author : William James Collins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Wordsworth And The Romantic Search For An Audience written by William James Collins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Romanticism categories.
The Poems Of William Wordsworth
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Author : William Wordsworth
language : en
Publisher: Hayes Barton Press
Release Date : 1845
The Poems Of William Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and has been published by Hayes Barton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1845 with Authors' presentation copies categories.