Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842 (2003)
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- Synopsis
- From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth was preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with 'natural piety' in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre , including the 'Gothic' juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage , Lyrical Ballads , Poems in Two Volumes , The Excursion , and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind 'the living and the dead' and to nurture 'the kind'.
- Copyright:
- 2003
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780230510333
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333562833
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/11/20
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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