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Wordsworth's Classical Undersong

Education, Rhetoric and Poetic Truth

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  • © 2000

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  1. Richard W. Clancey

    1. John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Wordsworth’s Academic Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Early Years

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 3-9

    3. Wordsworth at Hawkshead: the Ethos of an English Grammar School

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 10-24

    4. The Mancunian Paradigm, James Peake and the Hawkshead of William Wordsworth

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 25-51

    5. Cambridge and ‘knowledge … sincerely sought and prized / For its own sake’

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 52-63

  3. Wordsworth and Horace: Ethos and Poetic Truth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Horatian Poetics

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 67-86

    3. The Mind of the Poet

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 87-109

    4. The Poet’s Truth

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 110-124

  4. Classical Undersong: ‘lively images’, ‘strong feelings’, ‘purest Poesy’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Ethos and the Power of The Prelude

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 127-149

    3. The Poet’s Calling

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 150-163

    4. Classical Undersong, Text, ‘angels stopped upon the wing’

      • Richard W. Clancey
      Pages 164-179

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 180-215
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About this book

Wordsworth's classical education presents an amazing paradox. Gifted teachers trained him in the full rigours of classical Latin and Greek. But Wordsworth's schoolmasters were enlightened, liberal and advanced. They were committed to the Classics and to modern literature. In their enthusiasm they shared their volumes of contemporary poetry with Wordsworth. His was a holistic literary education. Wordsworth developed a profound love for the Classics and thus an enlightened zeal for a new poetry, a poetry capable of being compared with and even daring to compete with the Classical texts he so dearly loved. Richard Clancey's meticulously researched study presents new biographical information on Wordsworth's classical education and new facts about the education of his teachers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA

    Richard W. Clancey

About the author

RICHARD CLANCEY was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and has lived there most of his life. He earned his AB in Classics at John Carroll University, Cleveland, and his MA in English at Notre Dame University and his PhD also in English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He taught at Dunbarton College of the Holy Cross in Washington, D.C., and then came to teach English literature at John Carroll. His published articles focus on Wordsworth, especially his use of Horace and Demosthenes. He has been a frequent participant in the Wordsworth Winter School, Grasmere, England. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Cleveland Orchestra and a passionate swimmer.

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