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Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering / James H. Averill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)Content type:
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Sentimental Background -- 2. Suffering and Calm in the Early Poetry, 1788-1798 -- 3. Excitement and Tranquillity -- 4. The Pleasures of Tragedy, 1798 -- 5. Experiments in Pathos: Lyrical Ballads (1798) -- 6. The Union of Tenderness and Imagination: Lyrical Ballads (1800) -- 7. Human Suffering and the Growth of a Poet’s Mind: The Prelude, 1799-1805 -- Epilogue -- Index
Summary: Murderers, crazed widows, beggars, betrayed women—such are the pitiful figures who appear throughout Wordsworth's early narrative poetry. Analyzing the poet's use of pathos from the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads through the completion of The Prelude, James H. Averill argues that, for Wordsworth, the poetry of human life is inevitably the poetry of anguish and loss. Averill examines the relation of the poet to his human subjects, exploring the questions of tragic response and sentimental morality, the literary uses of human misery, and the pleasures of tragedy. In Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering, James H. Averill enriches our understanding and our appreciation of the peculiar power of Wordsworth's poetic vision.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Sentimental Background -- 2. Suffering and Calm in the Early Poetry, 1788-1798 -- 3. Excitement and Tranquillity -- 4. The Pleasures of Tragedy, 1798 -- 5. Experiments in Pathos: Lyrical Ballads (1798) -- 6. The Union of Tenderness and Imagination: Lyrical Ballads (1800) -- 7. Human Suffering and the Growth of a Poet’s Mind: The Prelude, 1799-1805 -- Epilogue -- Index

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Murderers, crazed widows, beggars, betrayed women—such are the pitiful figures who appear throughout Wordsworth's early narrative poetry. Analyzing the poet's use of pathos from the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads through the completion of The Prelude, James H. Averill argues that, for Wordsworth, the poetry of human life is inevitably the poetry of anguish and loss. Averill examines the relation of the poet to his human subjects, exploring the questions of tragic response and sentimental morality, the literary uses of human misery, and the pleasures of tragedy. In Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering, James H. Averill enriches our understanding and our appreciation of the peculiar power of Wordsworth's poetic vision.

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In English.

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