Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics
Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics
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华兹华斯的第二天性：诗歌与政治研究
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1984
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J. Chandler
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华兹华斯是法国大革命时期英国最伟大的诗人：他亲眼目睹了大革命的一些事件，参与了大革命的知识和社会抱负，并最终发展了他著名的诗歌运动，以回应大革命的热情。但如何理解这种反应呢？结合广泛的历史学术仔细解释分析，钱德勒提出了一个具有挑战性的新帐户的政治观点隐含在华兹华斯的主要工作，首先是在“前奏曲“，但也在中心歌词和较短的叙事诗。讨论的核心是将华兹华斯恢复到他成长的法语和英语环境中，考虑他与卢梭和伯克的关系。钱德勒坚持认为，到1798年华兹华斯提出他的“诗歌纲领”时，他已经背离了卢梭主义的自然观，这种自然观贯穿了他早期的共和主义著作。他已经成为伯克所谓的“第二天性”的诗人--由习俗、习惯和传统培养的人性--他反对追求他的朋友柯勒律治无法放弃的第一原则。在他对诗歌的分析中，钱德勒认为，即使是华兹华斯最明显的私人时刻，抒情的“时间点”，在意识形态上也体现了口头叙事纪律和英国本土思想的未经计算的习惯。
Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major works-in "The Prelude, " above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the discussion, which restores Wordsworth to both the French and English contexts in which he matured, is a consideration of his relation to Rousseau and Burke. Chandler maintains that by the time Wordsworth set forth his "program for poetry" in 1798, he had turned away from the Rousseauist idea of nature that had informed his early republican writings. He had already become a poet of what Burke called "second nature"-human nature cultivated by custom, habit, and tradition-and an opponent of the quest for first principles that his friend Coleridge could not forsake. In his analysis of the poetry, Chandler suggests that even Wordsworth's most apparently private moments, the lyrical "spots of time," ideologically embodied the uncalculated habits of an oral narrative discipline and a native English mind.