Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Trauma, transcendence, and trust Trauma, transcendence, and trust Brennan, Thomas J,Thomas J. Brennan,Thomas J. Brennan "Trauma, Transcendence and Trust takes up the idea of trauma as one of the lenses through which the twenty first century interprets experience. One place to excavate the roots of this sensibility is … OL15633141W
William and Dorothy Wordsworth William and Dorothy Wordsworth Lucy Newlyn "William Wordsworth's iconic relationship with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years. Separated after the death of their mother when Dorothy was six, and reunited as orphans after the death… OL19974416W
Biographia literaria Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initia… OL26129W
Wordsworth Wordsworth Juliet Barker William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Chur… OL2932960W
The Friendship The Friendship Adam Sisman The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and ColeridgeThe friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, th… OL3034854W
Wordsworth and the critics Wordsworth and the critics Mahoney, John L. xix, 166 p. ; 24 cm OL3337175W
Wordsworth's Biblical ghosts Wordsworth's Biblical ghosts Deeanne Westbrook "The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing languages, images, figures, and, importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical appro… OL3744206W
The romantic dream The romantic dream Douglas B. Wilson Although criticism on the medieval and Renaissance dream abounds, a strange lacuna exists in the critical literature of dream in the English Romantics. Every major Romantic poet relied frequently and… OL4297441W
The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805 The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805 William Andrew Ulmer "Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy. In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805, Will… OL4446666W
Wordsworth and philosophy Wordsworth and philosophy Keith G. Thomas 213 p. ; 24 cm OL4639048W
Power, plain English, and the rise of modern poetry Power, plain English, and the rise of modern poetry Rosen, David In this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. OL4687895W
Wordsworth in his major lyrics Wordsworth in his major lyrics Leon Waldoff "Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics explores the identity, role, and subjectivity of the speaker in Wordsworth's finest and best-known longer lyrics - "Tintern Abbey," "Resolution and Independence," "Ode… OL5358506W
Poetic exhibitions Poetic exhibitions Eric Gidal "Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum offers an extensive interdisciplinary study of the relation between British Romantic poetry and the rise of national m… OL6212241W
Romantics and Renegades Romantics and Renegades Charles W. Mahoney "Romantics and Renegades examines an abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism … OL9431578W