Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility - Couverture souple

Gravil, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847600956 ISBN 13 : 9781847600950

Editeur : Humanities-Ebooks, 2010

Synopsis

This book examines the connection between William Wordsworth and the work of Helen Maria Williams and the effect this connection may have had on his reception by such hostile critics as Francis Jeffrey. Why did Wordsworth write his first published poem to Helen Maria Williams? What role did she play in forming his views of poetry, and of the French Revolution? Why was Wordsworth able to recite in 1820 a poem by Miss Williams that he first read in 1790? Was his own poetical sensibility comparable with that of the older woman? Did the reception of Wordsworth’s Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey and others —as ‘puerile’, ‘namby-pamby’, ‘lisping’ and ‘affected’ — reflect a belief that manly sense and feminine sensibility, are not compatible? If so, why did Wordsworth run that risk? This little book attempts to suggest answers to some of those questions, and to provoke more systematic considerations of them all, and of Wordsworth's daring reconfiguration of 'manliness'.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Gravil is the author of *Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862* (2000), and of *Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842* (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Humanities-Ebooks
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847600956
• ISBN 13: 9781847600950
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible