Wordsworth's Bardic vocation, 1787-1842

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Wordsworth's Bardic vocation, 1787-1842

Richard Gravil

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth was preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with 'natural piety' in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre , including the 'Gothic' juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage , Lyrical Ballads , Poems in Two Volumes , The Excursion , and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind 'the living and the dead' and to nurture 'the kind'.

Table of Contents

  • Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: THE WORLD OF SHADES 'Among the Men of Old' 'Unforgotten Lays' 'Indignant Hills' PART 2: THE BOND OF NATURE A Defence of the People, Part 1: 'And of the Poor' A Defence of the People, Part 2: 'The Pathos of Humanity' 'Nature' in the Poem upon the Wye PART 3: THE LIVING AND THE DEAD Peopling Elysium Lucy and her Cousins 'The Milder Day'
  • or, Manliness and Minstrelsy PART 4: WORDSWORTH AND KINDLINESS A Pedlar at the Hearth of Lord Lonsdale National Pieties
  • or, The Road to Waterloo 'The steps which I have trod' Notes and References Index

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