William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry After Waterloo

by Jeffrey Cox

William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic provides a truly comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth and the full arc of his career from (1814-1840) revealing that his major poems after Waterloo contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries: Keats, Shelley and Byron. Refuting conventional models of influence, where Wordsworth 'fathers' the younger poets, Cox demonstrates how Wordsworth's later writing evolved in response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108931235
• ISBN13: 9781108931236
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"