Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780192870483 |
ISBN10: | 0192870483 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 320 pages |
Size: | 240x160x24 mm |
Weight: | 610 g |
Language: | English |
548 |
Category:
Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition
Romantic Recapitulation
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 25 May 2023
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Short description:
This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.
Long description:
Repetition has connotations of something boring, or unoriginal, or lacking in poetic skill, but repetition - in several different senses - dominates Wordsworth's poetry. This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation. Drawing on extensive close readings of Wordsworth's poetry, the book asks what it means to repeat, and how saying things again, often in a way which recognises both sameness and difference at the same time, is fundamental to Wordsworth's attempt to write what he called 'sincere' verse.
By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition is a definitive study of the topic.
By analysing instances of repetition and the conjunctions which facilitate recapitulation within Wordsworth's writing, the book attempts to understand the context, in terms of ideas of repetition, from which Wordsworth's works emerge, and to consider repetition in a broad range of senses - from repeated words and sounds within particular poems, to ideas of translation, allusion, and echo. Houghton-Walker also argues the importance of the element of difference within even apparently 'pure' repetition. Such difference might be in perception, attitude, or understanding, but for Wordsworth, the subtle relationship between instances of what seems to be the same experience illuminates the potential for poetry to portray simultaneously the specific and the universal: to hold within its lines both immediate and general truths at the same time.
Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition is a definitive study of the topic.
Table of Contents:
PART I: Introductory: Repetition in the Romantic Period
The Sense and the Sound of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
The Workings of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
Contexts for Repetition in the Romantic Period
PART II: Wordsworthian Recapitulation
Repetition and Conjunction: the quiet work of and and or
Conjunction, Expansion, and Sublimity
Conjunctions, Repetition, and Revision
Connection, Recognition, and Return
'The Thorn', Tautology, and Tragic Repetition
Crafted Repetition
Resounding Voices, Habitual Haunts: Recapitulation, Specifics, and Generals
Echo and Response
Coleridge and Repetition: A Comparative Case
Conclusion: Recapitulation and Sincerity
Bibliography
The Sense and the Sound of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
The Workings of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
Contexts for Repetition in the Romantic Period
PART II: Wordsworthian Recapitulation
Repetition and Conjunction: the quiet work of and and or
Conjunction, Expansion, and Sublimity
Conjunctions, Repetition, and Revision
Connection, Recognition, and Return
'The Thorn', Tautology, and Tragic Repetition
Crafted Repetition
Resounding Voices, Habitual Haunts: Recapitulation, Specifics, and Generals
Echo and Response
Coleridge and Repetition: A Comparative Case
Conclusion: Recapitulation and Sincerity
Bibliography