The Age of William Wordsworth: Critical Essays on the Romantic TraditionKenneth R. Johnston, Gene W. Ruoff Rutgers University Press, 1987 - 390 pages This collection of original essays by sixteen distinguished scholars explores a wide range of relationships in the Age of Wordsworth: from radical politics in the 1790s to reactionary politics in the 1820; between genres as diverse as social satire and apocalyptic prophecy; the influence of Wordsworth on other writers and artists (John Keats, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas De Quincey, and Dorothy Wordsworth); and connections between Romanticism and Victorian England, nineteenth-century America, and contemporary Freudian psychology. The essays are accessible to an educated general audience, but they will also be of interest to scholars and students of literature. -- From publisher's description. |
Contents
William Wordsworth | 3 |
Wordsworth as Satirist of His Age | 21 |
Prophecy | 39 |
Copyright | |
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