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" Wordsworth's monastic inheritance : "
Jessica Fay.
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873935
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Fay, Jessica,1986-
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Wordsworth's monastic inheritance : : poetry, place, and the sense of community /\ Jessica Fay.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2018.
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Oxford English Monographs
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1 online resource
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0191853550
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: 0192548158
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: 9780192548153
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0198816200
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9780198816201
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance: Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures and Map; Abbreviations; Introduction; MONASTICISM AND WORDSWORTH'S 'MIDDLE YEARS'; RUINS AND THEIR RESONANCES; BOOKS AND BIRDS: ST FRANCIS AND LAVERNA; WORDSWORTHIAN 'MONKS'; 1: Wordsworth's Creation of Taste; SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE AND WORDSWORTH'S PURIFIED ROMANCE; SUFFERING, REVERENCE, AND ASPIRATION; POETS AS 'POWERFUL RELIGIONISTS': SPENSER, WORDSWORTH, KEBLE; PROBLEMS WITH PRESCRIBING TASTE.
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2: Quakerism, Cultivation, and the Coleorton PeriodTHOMAS CLARKSON: QUAKERISM AND THE 'SEED OF THE KINGDOM'; THOMAS WILKINSON: GARDENING AND REAPING; QUAKERISM AND MONASTICISM: RUINS AND CONSECRATED GROUND; COLEORTON AND ITS HERITAGE; THE WINTER GARDEN; 3: 'My second Self when I am gone': Legacy, Memorialization, and Incarnation; WHITAKER AND THE WHITE DOE: BLOODLINES, PROGENY, AND INHERITANCE; THE TUFT OF PRIMROSES AND ST BASIL: TREES AND THE TRINITY; FROM THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE: CINTRA AND DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION; EPITAPHS AND INCARNATION; 4: Pastoral Reclusion and The Excursion.
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WORDSWORTH'S GOTHIC CHURCHPASTORALISM AND MONASTICISM; PASTORALISM CORRECTED; THE WANDERER'S ELOQUENCE; 5: Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Heritage; WORDSWORTH'S NORTHUMBRIA; SKETCHES AND INSCRIPTIONS; THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY; Epilogue: The Medieval Revival; APPENDIX I: Table of Monastic Sites Visited and/or Studied by Wordsworth; APPENDIX II: Map of Sites within the Scope of Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; Manuscripts; SECONDARY SOURCES; Databases and Reference Works; Index.
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"This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It reveals that a set of topographical, antiquarian, and ecclesiastical sources consulted by Wordsworth between 1806 and 1822 provided extensive details of the routines, structures, landscapes, and architecture of the medieval monastic system. In addition to offering a new way of thinking about religious dimensions of Wordsworth's work and his views on Roman Catholicism, the book offers original insights into a range of important issues in his poetry and prose, including the historical resonances of the landscape, local attachment and memorialization, gardening and cultivation, Quakerism and silence, solitude and community, pastoral retreat and national identity. Wordsworth's interest in monastic history helps explain significant stylistic developments in his writing. In this often-neglected phase of his career, Wordsworth undertakes a series of generic experiments in order to craft poems capable of reformulating and refining taste; he adapts popular narrative forms and challenges pastoral conventions, creating difficult, austere poetry that, he hopes, will encourage contemplation and subdue readers' appetites for exciting narrative action. This book thus argues for the significance and innovative qualities of some of Wordsworth's most marginalized writings. It grants poems such as The White Doe of Rylstone, The Excursion, and Ecclesiastical Sketches the centrality Wordsworth believed they deserved, and reveals how Wordsworth's engagement with the monastic history of his local region inflected his radical strategies for the creation of taste."--
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Monasticism and religious orders in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Monasticism and religious orders in literature.
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828/.709
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PR5888
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