Essential Wordsworth
Author | : William Wordsworth |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-03-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780060888619 |
ISBN-13 | : 006088861X |
Rating | : 4/5 (61X Downloads) |
Download or read book Essential Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction by Seamus Heaney: Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness are so truly and responsibly combined. He is an indispensable figure in the evolution of modern, a finder and keeper of the self as subject, a theorist and apologist whose preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive.