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At the heart of Wordsworth's concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach to experience - one that draws on habits in order to revise them in the shock of new - and as a poetic approach that gives voice to the singular and foreign through the unique shapes of verse. Close readings of Wordsworth's 'pictures of Nature, Man, and Society' show how the natural is entangled with - and not simply opposed to, as many critics have suggested - the social, the political and the historical in this verse. This book draws on both eighteenth-century anthropology and travel literature, and debates in modern critical theory, to highlight Wordsworth's remarkable originality and his ongoing ability to transform our theoretical prejudgements in the unknown territory of the travel encounter.

Travel in literature. --- Geographical perception in literature. --- Voyages and travels in literature --- Wordsworth, William, --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Travelers' writings, English --- History and criticism. --- Travel.

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In 1798, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were engaged in a top secret experiment. This was not, as many assume, the creation of a book of poetry. A book emerged, to be sure—the landmark Lyrical Ballads. But in Murder Ballads, David John Brennan posits that the two poets were in fact pursuing far different ends: to birth from their poems a singular, idealized Poet. Despite their success, such Frankensteinian pursuits proved rife with consequence for the men. Doubts and questions plagued them: What does it mean to be a poet if your work is not your own? Who is best fit to lay claim to a parcel of poetic property that was collaboratively crafted and bequeathed to a fictitious Poet? How does one kill a Poet born of one’s own hand? Blending critical examination with jocular playlets-in-verse featuring the authors of the two books in baffled conversation, Murder Ballads reopens a 200-year-old cold case that never received a proper investigation: Who was the first true Author of Lyrical Ballads, and how exactly did he die?

Literary studies: poetry & poets --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Wordsworth, William, --- Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William). --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- poetry --- criticism --- Wordsworth --- plays --- experimental poetry

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This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- British literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literary History. --- History and criticism. --- 19th century. --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Philosophy --- English literature --- Disabilities in literature. --- Romanticism. --- History and criticism --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Wordsworth, William, --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Davy, Humphry, --- Lamb, Charles, --- Beddoes, Thomas, --- Wedgwood, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- T. B. --- B., T. --- Beddoes, --- Lem, Carl'z --- Elia, --- Lan-mu, Chʻa-erh-ssu, --- Chʻa-erh-ssu Lan-mu, --- למב, צ'רלס, --- チャールズ.ラム, --- Angler, --- Davy, H. --- Davy, Humphrey, --- Dévi, Gemfri, --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- Wœ̄tsawœ̄t, Winlīam, --- Wurdzwurth, Wilyam, --- Varḍsavartha Viliyama, --- Axiologus, --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- Criticism --- Literary style --- European literature