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Author: Adam Potkay Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421417022 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.
Author: Adam Potkay Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421417022 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers. Why read Wordsworth’s poetry—indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth’s thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in both well-known and more obscure writings. Wordsworth's Ethics is a comprehensive examination of the Romantic poet’s work, delving into his desire to understand the source and scope of our ethical obligations. Adam Potkay finds that Wordsworth consistently rejects the kind of impersonal utilitarianism that was espoused by his contemporaries James Mill and Jeremy Bentham in favor of a view of ethics founded in relationships with particular persons and things. The discussion proceeds chronologically through Wordsworth’s career as a writer—from his juvenilia through his poems of the 1830s and '40s—providing a valuable introduction to the poet’s work. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy.
Author: Norman Lacey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107651670 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 139
Book Description
Originally published in 1948, this book provides a discussion of Wordsworth's perspective on nature, taking into account his position as the only poetic figure 'in whom it is possible to study the transition from Romantic into Victorian'. This transition, both in social and literary terms, is presented as being of fundamental importance to gaining an understanding of the Victorian age. The text incorporates detailed analysis of The Prelude and Lyrical Ballads, together with other areas of Wordsworth's oeuvre. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Wordsworth, Romanticism and the beginnings of the Victorian age.
Author: Laurence S. Lockridge Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521352568 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.
Author: Adam Potkay
Author: Adam Potkay
Author: REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART
Author: Norman Lacey
Author: Laurence S. Lockridge
Author: William Wordsworth
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Author: Theodore Whitefield Hunt
Author: William Wordsworth
Author: University of Michigan
Author: University of Michigan