Wordsworths Vagrant Muse

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Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse

Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse
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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0814324819
ISBN-13 : 9780814324813
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Book Synopsis Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse by : Gary Lee Harrison

Download or read book Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse written by Gary Lee Harrison and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform that swept the social, political, and cultural landscape in England during the 1790s. In Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse, Gary Harrison argues that although Wordsworth's poetry is implicated in an ideology that idealizes rustic poverty, it nonetheless invests the image of the rural poor with a certain, if ambiguously realized, power. The early poems challenge the complacency of middle-class readers by constructing a mirror in which they confront the possibility of their own impoverishment (both economic and moral), and by investing the marginal poor with a sense of dignity and morality otherwise denied them.


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