| Description |
xxiii, 215 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Wordsworth's Academic Training. 1. Early Years -- 2. Wordsworth at Hawkshead: the Ethos of an English Grammar School -- 3. The Mancunian Paradigm, James Peake and the Hawkshead of William Wordsworth -- 4. Cambridge and 'knowledge... sincerely sought and prized / For its own sake' -- Pt. II. Wordsworth and Horace: Ethos and Poetic Truth. 5. Horatian Poetics -- 6. The Mind of the Poet -- 7. The Poet's Truth -- Pt. III. Classical Undersong: 'lively images', 'strong feelings', 'purest Poesy'. 8. Ethos and the Power of The Prelude -- 9. The Poet's Calling -- 10. Classical Undersong, Text, 'angels stopped upon the wing' -- App. Aristotle's Ethical Proof; a Sampling of its Use in Recent Criticism |
| Summary |
"Wordsworth's Classical Undersong recounts the grammar-school training of a great Romantic revolutionary poet. Richard Clancey's meticulously researched study presents new biographical information on Wordsworth's classical education and new facts about the education of his teachers."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Knowledge -- Classical philology
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Classical education -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Classicism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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English poetry -- Classical influences.
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Poetics.
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| LC no. |
99043170 |
| ISBN |
0333760344 : |
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0312225601 cloth |
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