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Tim Fulford introduces and closely examines little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth, engaging with current issues such as isolation, mental illness and bereavement, and inviting the reader to consider the literature of old age and the relation of Wordsworth's late-life writing to his earlier work.

Table of Contents
1. The Death Zone: Wordsworth, Scott and Davy on Helvellyn; 2. Chronicle of a Death Untold: Wordsworth's 'Epistle to Sir George Beaumont'; 3. Wordsworth in Homage: Elegizing the Lyrical Ballad; 4. Wordsworth at Sea: Lockdown and Lunacy in Two Poems From the 1830s; 5. Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth's Late Memorials; 6. Wordsworth's Bardic Vacation: Invoking the Spiritual in the Age of Steam; 7. Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers: Late Lyrical Ballads; 8. An Aged Man Writes About an Aged Man: Wordsworth's Last Poems and the New Poor Law.

Experimentalism in Wordsworths Later Poetry

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 6/29/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781009320795, 978-1009320795
      ISBN10: 1009320793
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tim Fulford introduces and closely examines little-known, late and difficult poems which together present an alternative Wordsworth, engaging with current issues such as isolation, mental illness and bereavement, and inviting the reader to consider the literature of old age and the relation of Wordsworth's late-life writing to his earlier work.

      Table of Contents
      1. The Death Zone: Wordsworth, Scott and Davy on Helvellyn; 2. Chronicle of a Death Untold: Wordsworth's 'Epistle to Sir George Beaumont'; 3. Wordsworth in Homage: Elegizing the Lyrical Ballad; 4. Wordsworth at Sea: Lockdown and Lunacy in Two Poems From the 1830s; 5. Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth's Late Memorials; 6. Wordsworth's Bardic Vacation: Invoking the Spiritual in the Age of Steam; 7. Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers: Late Lyrical Ballads; 8. An Aged Man Writes About an Aged Man: Wordsworth's Last Poems and the New Poor Law.

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