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Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation, 1787–1842

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  • © 2003

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  1. Richard Gravil
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction A Bardic Imagination

    1. Introduction A Bardic Imagination

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      Pages 1-8

  3. The World of Shades

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. ‘Among the Men of Old’

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      Pages 11-32

    3. ‘Unforgotten Lays’

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      Pages 33-50

    4. ‘Indignant Hills’

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      Pages 51-72

  4. The Bond of Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. A Defence of the People Part 1: ‘And of the Poor’

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      Pages 75-91

    3. A Defence of the People Part 2: ‘The Pathos of Humanity’

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      Pages 92-114

    4. ‘Nature’ in the Poem upon the Wye

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      Pages 115-130

  5. The Living and the Dead

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Peopling Elysium

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      Pages 133-155

    3. Lucy and her Cousins

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      Pages 156-174

    4. ‘The Milder Day’; or, Manliness and Minstrelsy

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      Pages 175-199

  6. Wordsworth and Kindliness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. A Pedlar at the Hearth of Lord Lonsdale

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      Pages 203-224

    3. National Pieties; or, the Road to Waterloo

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      Pages 225-244

    4. ‘The Steps which I have Trod’

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      Pages 245-266

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 267-310
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From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth was preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with 'natural piety' in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre , including the 'Gothic' juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage , Lyrical Ballads , Poems in Two Volumes , The Excursion , and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind 'the living and the dead' and to nurture 'the kind'.

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'Gravil reads Wordsworth closely and generously.' - Michael Wiley, European Romantic Review

About the author

RICHARD GRAVIL was Reader in English Literature at the University of Lódz, Poland, and the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, and has taught at the Universities of Victoria, BC, and Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 and Managing Editor of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. He has also edited five collections on Coleridge, Swift, Wordsworth, and the English Novel.

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