Fragments by William Wordsworth
Brand: Contra Mundum Press
Product Description
Featuring an extended introduction by scholar of British Romanticism Alan Vardy Fragments consists of Wordsworths philosophicoaesthetic prose fragment The Sublime ampamp the Beautiful and Hawkshead ampamp the Ferry. While a fragmented text unfinished almost certainly abandoned by the author the difficulties of the former text no longer appear fatal so much as evidence of Wordsworths rigorous struggle to come to terms not only with his own aesthetic experiences but with the philosophical aesthetics of his epoch. What were once read as confusions may now be seen as productive of complex accounts of lived affective experiences. In critical terms current aesthetic occupations have perhaps finally found Wordsworths text. By placing the prose fragment in a separate appendix the original editors of Wordsworths Prose Works removed it from its actual place in The Unpublished Tour. New analysis of the manuscripts reveals that The Sublime ampamp the Beautiful is actually part of the Tour. In reprinting the Hawkshead ampamp the Ferry section of the Tour our edition restores this original context lost in the standard Oxford edition. The prose fragment begins in the precise place where Hawkshead ampamp the Ferry ends on the west side of Windermere looking north to the Langdale pikes. Were the missing pages of The Sublime ampamp the Beautiful to be recovered the transition from picturesque viewpoint to speculation on the philosophical status of that view would be apparent. Understanding the significance of our affective response to natural objects could not be more central to a Wordsworthian poetics predicated on the internalization of aesthetic sensations into perceptions and ideas associations of one kind or another and finally into the very stuff of the poetry. Fragmented or not this prose treatise on a subject of such centrality to the poets project can no longer be ignored. It is this general neglect that the present text hopes to address by publishing these fragments on their own for the very first time. show more
Condition : New
Author : William Wordsworth
Weight : 410
Publisher : Contra Mundum Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781940625027
ISBN10 : 1940625025
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20131003
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : Illustrations Black And White
Dimensions : 254 X 178 X 9