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Defining poetry as the 'overflow of powerful feelings' and 'emotion recollected in tranquillity', Wordsworth adopts two of the key claims of British Whig aesthetics: the centrality of affect to human being, and the need to regulate said affect. Wordsworth continues that poetry is feeling and that the metered pleasure of poetry makes it possible for the reader to field emotions otherwise difficult to bear.
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist who regards poetry as a 'relatively autonomous' space in which to liberate, experiment with, and redistribute affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth investigates how poetic emotion generates human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through its acute sensitivity to feeling, can evaluate public and private life. If Whig feeling is the origin of Wordsworth's poetry, pleasure in and of itself, available to all, is its end.
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This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
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Stuart Allen's Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics is an important contribution to the study of Wordsworth's poetics [...] The basic premise of this book - that at the centre of Wordsworth's critical poetics is the Whig aesthetic notion that feeling has a cognitive component - is highly original and serves to effectively foreground Wordsworth's role in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century [...] His book deserves attention and praise for its comparative fullness and admirable scholarship.
Romanticism, Vol. 18, 118-120.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0230248179
- ISBN 13 9780230248175
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages214
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