Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity |
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| Author:
| Perkins, David |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-42425-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Imprint: | Belknap Press |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.