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 4 - Wordsworth at Sea
Lockdown and Lunacy in Two Poems from the 1830s
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
It is the argument of this chapter that in the 1830s and 1840s, the pressure of memorialising old friends who had suffered or died with madness caused Wordsworth to write a kind of poetry that responded to (what he saw as) deformity. In the process, fraught with difficulty, he modified his epitaphic poetics: a series of memorials mixed the traits of his elegiac verse with those of his epitaphs and inscriptions.
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- Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later PoetryDialogues with the Dead, pp. 88 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023