A selection of keynote lectures and conference papers from the prestigious 2010 Wordsworth Summer Conference. Contains 1. Simon Bainbridge, 'The Power of Hills': Romantic Mountaineering; 2. Peter Spratley, Wordsworth's Walking Aesthetic; 3. Gary Harrison, The Poetics of Acknowledgment: John Clare; 4. James Castell, The Society of Birds in Home at Grasmere; 5. Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey, 'Kubla Khan' and Orientalism: The Roads to and from Xanadu; 6. Saeko Yoshikawa, Wordsworth in the Guides; 7. Daniel Robinson, Mary Robinson and the Della Crusca Network; 8. Erica McAlpine, Keats's Might: Subjunctive Verbs in the Late Poems; 9. Fay Yao, 'Old Romance' and New Narrators: A Reading of Keats's 'Isabella' and 'The Eve of St Agnes'; 10. Anthony John Harding, The Fate of Reading in the Regency; 11. Ken Johnston, Wordsworth at Forty: Memoirs of a Lost Generation; 12. Richard Gravil, Is The Excursion a 'metrical Novel?'; 13. Seamus Perry, Wordsworth's Pluralism.
Within this peripatetic framework I will examine images of the pedestrian and circulation within Wordsworth's 'The Old Cumberland Beggar' and 'The Solitary Reaper', poems which negotiate a paradox of simultaneous absence and presence by ...
173 Peter Spratley, 'Wordsworth's Walking Aesthetic', in Grasmere 2010: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference, ed. Richard Gravil (Penrith, 2010), pp. 30–40, p. 33. 174 Wordsworth, 'Old Man Travelling', ll. 17–18.
Volumes are available at: http://www.cornellpress. cornell.edu The reading texts are also collected in The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth, 3 vols, edited by Jared Curtis ...
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism.
... J.D. Marshall and J.K. Walton, The Lake Counties from 1830 to the Mid-Twentieth Century (1981), 177–303; Scott Hess, William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship (2012), 127–38. Furness Railway Company, The English Lake-Land.
(1988) 'The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons,' by William Wordsworth, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ... in Grasmere 2010: Selected Papers From the Wordsworth Summer Conference, ed.
Alexander B. Grosart, 3 vols, London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 1876. Cited parenthetically by volume and page number. The Poems of William Wordsworth, Collected Reading Texts from The Cornell Wordsworth, ed. Jared Curtis, 3 vols, ...
stoicism the poet neither possesses nor is quite sure he wants: i concur with susan wolfson that the poetГs silence at the end of BooN 1 implies less than total reconcilement to the wandererГs view of margaretГs tale, and with regina ...
unchanging stars. Shelley's stance in Italy, in the face of political setbacks, artistic rejection, and personal tragedy, is revealed by Dante's princes, involved in their waiting. ... Weinberg, Alan M. Shelley's Italian Experience.
26 Egalitarianism is fostered by natural sensibility, and to refine a sense of “taste” is to become indoctrinated into an ideological ... Shelley presents the body immersed in nature as an essential component of his egalitarian sublime.