Author: Matthew Bevis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665219X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“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.
Wordsworth's Fun
Author: Matthew Bevis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665219X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665219X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“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.
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling
Author: Matthew Ward
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198894767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198894767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
The Living Age
Littell's Living Age
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Publisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Littell's Living Age
The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Ninetheenth Century
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The Literary History of England
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Literary History of England
American Literature
Author: Edwin Percy Whipple
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes Agnew
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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