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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463673503321

Autore

Robinson Daniel

Titolo

Myself and some other being : Wordsworth and the life writing / / Daniel Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60938-258-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Collana

Muse Books

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Autobiographical poetry, English

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Editions; Prelude; Two Consciousnesses; The History of a Poet's Mind; Trances of Thought; A Chosen Son; There Was a Boy; Shrines So Frail; Spots of Time; Finale; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The story of Wordsworth becoming Wordsworth by writing the fragments and drafts of what would become The Prelude, a personal poem addressed to Coleridge that he kept hidden from the public until his death in 1850. Robinson shows that, by writing about himself and that other being, Wordsworth created an innovative autobiographical epic of becoming that is the masterpiece he believed he had failed to write"--