Wordsworth's Fun - Couverture souple

Bevis, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022665219X ISBN 13 : 9780226652191

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

“The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge’s cottage,” William Hazlitt recalled, “He answered in some degree to his friend’s description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote- like . . . there was a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth.” Hazlitt presents a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know—and, as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, this Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy.

Wordsworth’s Fun explores the writer’s debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Combining close reading with cultural analysis, Bevis travels many untrodden ways, studying Wordsworth’s interest in laughing gas, pantomime, the figure of the fool, and the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, Wordsworth’s Fun sheds fresh light on how one poet’s strange humor helped to shape modern literary experiment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Bevis is professor of English at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence, Comedy: A Very Short Introduction, and Lessons in Byron. His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper's, Poetry, and Raritan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022665219X
• ISBN 13: 9780226652191
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 313
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