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22%OFFDavid Bromwich - Disowned by Memory - 9780226075570 - V9780226075570
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Disowned by Memory

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Description for Disowned by Memory Paperback. The author connects the accidents of the poet Wordsworth's life with the originality of his works, tracking the impulses that turned him to poetry after the death of his parents and during his years as an enthusiastic disciple of the French Revolution. Bromwich argues that his political idealism deeply motivated his writings of the 1790s. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
Although we know him as one of the greatest English poets, William Wordsworth might not have become a poet at all without the experience of personal and historical catastrophe in his youth. In Disowned by Memory, David Bromwich connects the accidents of Wordsworth's life with the originality of his writing, showing how the poet's strong sympathy with the political idealism of the age and with the lives of the outcast and the dispossessed formed the deepest motive of his writings of the 1790s.

"This very Wordsworthian combination of apparently low subjects with extraordinary 'high argument' makes for very rewarding, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226075570
SKU
V9780226075570
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