This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life. INDICE: Introduction: Poetry, Feeling and Criticism - Shaftesbury, Wordsworth and Affective Critique - Burke, Wordsworth and the Poet - Poetry and the Liberty of Feeling - Wordsworth's Ear and the Place of Aesthetic Autonomy - Poetry and Embodiment - Melancholy and Affirmation - Conclusion -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24817-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés