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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812443803321

Autore

Fosso Kurt <1958->

Titolo

Buried communities : Wordsworth and the bonds of mourning / / Kurt Fosso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8570-6

1-4175-7758-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Death in literature

Literature and society - England - History - 19th century

Elegiac poetry, English - History and criticism

Mourning customs in literature

Communities in literature

Grief in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Buried Communities -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A "World of Shades": The Birth of Community in the Juvenilia -- 2. Grief and Dwelling in the Cambridge Poems, including An Evening Walk -- 3. Genre, Politics, and Community in the Salisbury Plain Poems -- 4. The Shades of Mourning and the One Life in The Ruined Cottage -- 5. Elegies, Epitaphs, and Legacies of Loss in Lyrical Ballads -- 6. Grieving and Dwelling in the Five-Book Prelude and Home at Grasmere -- 7. "A New Controul" in Poems in Two Volumes and The Excursion -- NOTES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.