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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | William Wordsworth; William Wordsworth |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Duncan Wu |
ISBN: | 0631206388 9780631206385 1405113693 9781405113694 |
OCLC Number: | 659943941 |
Description: | xviii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. A Note On Texts. Abbreviations. 1. "Perhaps My Pains Might Be Beguil'd". 2. "In Black Helvellyn's Inmost Womb". 3. "Charg'd By Magic". 4. "The World Is Poisoned At The Heart". 5. "Their Life Is Hidden With God". 6. "The Vital Spirit Of A Perfect Form". Part I: October 1798-April 1799. Between Parts I And II: April-May 1799. Part II: May-December 1799. 7. "Serious Musing And Self-Reproach". 8. "I Yearn Towards Some Philosophic Song". 9. "That Vast Abiding-Place". 10. "I Only Look'd For Pain And Grief". 11. "Forbearance & Self-Sacrifice". 12. "O Teach Me Calm Submission To Thy Will". Epilogue. Appendix: The White Doe Of Rylstone (1808 Text) And Its "Advertizement". Bibliography. Index. |
Responsibility: | Duncan Wu. |
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"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight." Professor Stephen Gill, Oxford University "Wordsworth: An Inner Life shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar." Times Literary Supplement "This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts." Times Higher Education Supplement "In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's "inner life", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism." Religious Studies Review Read more...

