Book contents
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Death Zone
- Chapter 2 Chronicle of a Death Untold:
- Chapter 3 Wordsworth in Homage:
- Chapter 4 Wordsworth at Sea
- Chapter 5 Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth’s Late Memorials
- Chapter 6 Wordsworth’s Bardic Vacation
- Chapter 7 Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers:
- Chapter 8 An Aged Man Writes about an Aged Man
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Chapter 3 - Wordsworth in Homage:
Elegising the Lyrical Ballad
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
Book contents
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Experimentalism in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Death Zone
- Chapter 2 Chronicle of a Death Untold:
- Chapter 3 Wordsworth in Homage:
- Chapter 4 Wordsworth at Sea
- Chapter 5 Dementia Poetics in Wordsworth’s Late Memorials
- Chapter 6 Wordsworth’s Bardic Vacation
- Chapter 7 Hybrids, Hermits and Hut Dwellers:
- Chapter 8 An Aged Man Writes about an Aged Man
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Summary
In this chapter, I assess a pair of poems linked by their occasion – the moon seen from the seashore – by their place of composition – the Cumbrian coast—by their date – the mid 1830s – and by their scenario – the lonely sailor at sea in the dark allegorising men and women’s position in the world. I construe the poems as among Wordsworth’s most searching meditations on disappointment, alienation, loss and depression – and on poetry’s role in articulating aspects of spacetime that might mollify, if not cure, what he reveals to be the human predicament.
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- Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later PoetryDialogues with the Dead, pp. 54 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023