Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are

by Paul H. Fry

In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth's motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or--more recently--political repression, Fry redirects the poems and offers a strikingly revisionary reading.

Fry argues that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300126484
• ISBN13: 9780300126488
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"