MATTHEW CAMPBELL
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264584
- eISBN:
- 9780191734069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264584.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture presents the text of the speech about English poet William Wordsworth and the druids delivered by the author at the 2008 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It ...
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This lecture presents the text of the speech about English poet William Wordsworth and the druids delivered by the author at the 2008 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It provides an analysis of the beginning of Book III of The Excursion and explains the concepts of the Poet, the Wanderer, and the Solitary. The lecture suggests that Wordsworth's characters inhabit a common land until modernity takes it away from them, and that this dissolves the natural regenerative seasonal cycle in which humans now find it so difficult to live and work.Less
This lecture presents the text of the speech about English poet William Wordsworth and the druids delivered by the author at the 2008 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It provides an analysis of the beginning of Book III of The Excursion and explains the concepts of the Poet, the Wanderer, and the Solitary. The lecture suggests that Wordsworth's characters inhabit a common land until modernity takes it away from them, and that this dissolves the natural regenerative seasonal cycle in which humans now find it so difficult to live and work.
TONY CURTIS
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264355
- eISBN:
- 9780191734052
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264355.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture presents the text of the speech about the consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse delivered by the author at the 2007 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at ...
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This lecture presents the text of the speech about the consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse delivered by the author at the 2007 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It discusses the traditional strategies of the inversion of syntax and the end-focusing of the main clause in Abse's poetry. The lecture also examines the ways in which Abse's identity as Londoner and a Cardiff Welshman underpins his work.Less
This lecture presents the text of the speech about the consistent irony and reluctant faith in the poetry of Dannie Abse delivered by the author at the 2007 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It discusses the traditional strategies of the inversion of syntax and the end-focusing of the main clause in Abse's poetry. The lecture also examines the ways in which Abse's identity as Londoner and a Cardiff Welshman underpins his work.
