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

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In providing a comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth (1814–1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts.

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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 to 'second generation' romanticism. After exploring the ways in which his younger contemporaries rewrote his 'Excursion', this volume examines how Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' enters into a complex conversation with Leigh Hunt and Byron; how the delayed publication of 'Peter Bell' could be read as a reaction to the Byronic hero; how the older poet's River Duddon sonnets respond to Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'; and how his later volumes, particularly 'Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837', engage in a complicated erasure of poets who both followed and predeceased him.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Cox is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author and editor of ten volumes, including Romanticism in the Shadow of War (2014) and the award-winning Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School (1998).

Table of Contents

1. Cockney excursions; 2. Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode': An engaged poetics and the horrors of war; 3. 'This Potter-Don-Juan': 'Peter Bell' in 1819; 4. Thinking rivers: The flow of influence, Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley; 5. Late 'Late Wordsworth'; 6. Postscript: Wordsworth in 1850: The Prelude, 'this posthumous yet youthful work'.

Review

'one of the most important scholars of so-called second-generation Romanticism … Highly recommended. ' J. Risinger, Choice Connect'a convincing reconfiguration of the 'late' Wordsworth - one that reconnects him to the second-generation Romantics.' Jayne Thomas, Times Literary Supplement'… a brave, insightful, formidably well-researched study.' Robin Jarvis, Review 19

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Comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.

Details ISBN1108931235 Author Jeffrey Cox Pages 293 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2023 ISBN-10 1108931235 ISBN-13 9781108931236 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Contesting Poetry after Waterloo Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises AU Release Date 2023-06-22 NZ Release Date 2023-06-22 Publication Date 2023-06-22 UK Release Date 2023-06-22 Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Alternative 9781108837613 DEWEY 821.7 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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