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Critical sites about Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Between Memory and History: Wordsworth's Excursion

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/memory.html

"Despite Ð or perhaps, because of Ð its own mixed reception history, The Excursion (1814) remains an interesting comment on the process of historical and cultural change. Like The Prelude (1850), the poem addresses the status of the self, the passage of time, and memory Ð issues that have revived critical interest in the poem over the last two decades. As the arguments of critics like William H. Galperin and David Simpson have implied, The Excursion engages with these issues by ÒdisplacingÓ them as symptoms or Òanxieties.Ó The poem seems to indicate Wordsworth's revision, or at least his questioning, of assumptions about self, imagination, and memory on which The Prelude operated. Instead of undertaking a further interrogation of the poem's "anxieties" in this essay, I want to suggest another way of reading them Ð a reading that also suggests a schema for re-reading critical and editorial interventions that seek to determine any poem's meaning."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Lisa Hirschfield

From: Romanticism on the Net Vol 16 November 1999

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The Poetics of Place and Time in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/2A/Z.Sng.html

Text of a paper given at the 1996 "Graduate Student Conference in Romanticism." It argues that the poem "is, today, a ruin--a textual trace whose meaning is constituted by temporal and spatial references that have fallen away. It has been set adrift from its proper historical and geographical site, subjected to a series of displacements--an errance."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Zachary Sng

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Tintern Abbey and the "Spiritual Presence of Absent Things"

http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/panels/5C/M.Herrington-Perry.html

Text of a paper given at the 1996 "Graduate Student Conference in Romanticism." The author argues "that 'Tintern Abbey' does indeed possess a moral conscience, though in a form that may be difficult for cultural materialists to comprehend."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Mary Herrington-Perry

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Other (non-critical) sites about Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth on covenants, "heart conditions," primogeniture, remains, and the ties that bind in "Michael" and elsewhere

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n2_v40/ai_20992275

"William Wordsworth's pastoral poem 'Michael' rejects broken covenants."

Contains: Content Analysis

Author: Stuart Peterfreund

From: Criticism Spring 1998

Author: Stuart Peterfreund

From: Criticism Spring 1998

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