Wordsworth's Poetic Theory

ANDREW BENNETT Professor of English, University of Bristol, UKPETER DE BOLLA Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge, UKCLAUDIA BRODSKY Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USASOELVE CURDTS Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USAFRANCES FERGUSON Mary Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, USA PAUL HAMILTON Professor of English, Queen Mary, University of London, UKGEOFFREY HARTMAN Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus) and Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, USAMARY JACOBUS Grace 2 Professor of English, and Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK SIMON JARVIS Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics, University of Cambridge, UK

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Hoesel-Uhlig & A.Regier Wordsworth's Poetic Ignorance; A.Bennett Poetic Objecthood in 1798; S.H.Uhlig What is a Lyrical Ballad? Wordsworth's Experimental Epistemologies; P.de Bolla Words Worth Repeating: Language and Repetition in Wordsworth's Poetic Theory; A.Regier The Poetic Structure of Complexity: Wordsworth's Sublime and 'Something Regular'; C.Brodsky Dying into Prose: The Standard of Taste in Wordsworth's Essays upon Epitaphs ; S.Curdts Writing and Orality around 1800: 'Speakers', 'Readers', and Wordsworth's 'The Thorn'; F.Ferguson The Excursion and Wordsworth's Special Remainder; P.Hamilton Wordsworth's Late Melodics; S.Jarvis Composing Sound: The Deaf Dalesman, 'The Brothers', and Epitaphic Signs; M.Jacobus Wordsworth and Metapsychology; G.Hartman Index

'Regier and Uhlig have assembled a remarkable group of scholars and critics who contribute to an invaluable volume for Romanticists and literary theorists alike.' Ross Wilson, Textual Practice'The Wordsworthian question of poetry [ ] motivates this exciting and challenging book, and receives from its distinguished contributors a range of compelling answers.' Tom Duggett, Romanticism'Seldom does a collection of essays display the internal coherence of this intellectually ambitious and well-judged volume. The aspects of Wordsworth's poetic theory and practice addressed by the contributors are theoretically sophisticated and timely. [ ] The exceptional standard of the essays, their dialogic development of a series of closely related themes, and the inherent interest of the subject make the collection vital reading for any student not just of the Romantic period, but of poetic theory in general.' Forum for Modern Language Studies'A significant and timely crystallization of one of the most exciting developments in recent studies in Romanticism: what might be described as the 'cognitive turn' in Wordswoth studies. [ ] A rich and intellectually invigorating collection [ ] it brings together several generations of significant and emerging Wordsworth scholars, and shows the way forward for an excitingly revitalizes Wordsworth criticism. Simon Swift, BARS Bulletin & Review