Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception

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Brian R Bates

The History of the Book

Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry. He examines Wordsworth’s career between 1800 and 1820 to reveal how supplementary prose, promotion and parody were intertwined with debates on the creation of reading publics, the role of the press and the enduring literary character of England.

Sample pages

• Introduction
• Index

Readership

Literature, Romanticism and the History of the Book

Contents

Introduction
1 Reframing Lyrical Ballads (1800/1798)
2 Textual Travelling in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads
3 Short-Circuiting Wordsworth’s 1807 Poems: Richard Mant’s The Simpliciad
4 Wordsworth’s ‘Library of Babel’: The Excursion and the 1815 Poems
5 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
6 J H Reynolds’s ‘Peter Bell’ and the Wordsworthian Reputation
7 The River Duddon Volume and Wordsworth’s Canonical Ascent

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• Blackwood's Magazine, 1817–1825: Selections from Maga's Infancy
• British Satire, 1785–1840
• The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx
• Parodies of the Romantic Age: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin and Other Parodic Writings
• Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality
• Romantic Marginality: Nation and Empire on the Borders of the Page
• Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History

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