Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition

Romantic Recapitulation

Sarah Houghton-Walker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287048-3 (ISBN)

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Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse.

By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.

Sarah Houghton-Walker began her career as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and has been a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College since 2007. She has published on a range of Romantic-period writers, and is also a founder and Co-Director of the Centre for John Clare Studies, based in the Cambridge University Faculty of English.

PART I: Introductory: Repetition in the Romantic Period
1: The Sense and the Sound of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
2: The Workings of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
3: Contexts for Repetition in the Romantic Period
PART II: Wordsworthian Recapitulation
4: Repetition and Conjunction: the quiet work of and and or
5: Conjunction, Expansion, and Sublimity
6: Conjunctions, Repetition, and Revision
7: Connection, Recognition, and Return
8: 'The Thorn', Tautology, and Tragic Repetition
9: Crafted Repetition
10: Resounding Voices, Habitual Haunts: Recapitulation, Specifics, and Generals
11: Echo and Response
12: Coleridge and Repetition: A Comparative Case
13: Conclusion: Recapitulation and Sincerity
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Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-287048-3 / 0192870483
ISBN-13	978-0-19-287048-3 / 9780192870483
Zustand	Neuware