Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Death & Dying - Sociocultural Aspects, English Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Death, Grief & Bereavement, English Poetry - 19th Century - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Though Wordsworth's 'Lucy Poems' are among the best-known lyric sequences in English, they did not exist as such in his day. 'Strange fits of passion have I known'; 'She dwelt among the untrodden ways'; 'I travelled among unknown men'; 'Three years she grew in sun and shower'; and 'A slumber did my spirit seal' were first gathered as 'Lucy Poems' by Victorian critics and editors shortly after Wordsworth's death. Mark Jones argues that the 'Lucy' grouping first took form as a simplification of Wordsworth's text, and that its persistence in modern criticism reflects primarily the literature institution's will to knowledge. Problematic in themselves and in their editorial history, the 'Lucy Poems' provide an excellent focus for a case-history in the modes of 'practical' criticism since 1800.Editorials
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Taking as a case study the creation of a series of Wordsworth's poems after his death and its persistence in critical tradition, Jones (English, Queen's U.) examines the practices of literary criticism since 1800. He considers the poems individually and their arrangement in Wordsworth's own editions, and explores aspects of the critical response to them as a manifestation of an underlying theoretical debate between closural and anti-closural hermeneutics. Canadian card order number: C95-930345-6. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
October 1, 1995
Publisher
Toronto : Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1995.
Pages
338
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780802004345