Wordsworth Reshapes Himself and Is Reshaped: The River Duddon and the 1820 Miscellaneous Poems
Wordsworth Reshapes Himself and Is Reshaped: The River Duddon and the 1820 Miscellaneous Poems
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华兹华斯重塑自己并被重塑:达登河和 1820 年杂诗
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10.1086/707686
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2020
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Manning P
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Manning P
The four-volume collection of Miscellaneous Poems has attracted significant attention from several critics. 1 Yet located between the self-canonizing Poems, Including Lyrical Ballads of 18152 and the more inclusive and further revised six-volume 1836–37 edition of The Poetical Works with the frontispiece portrait by HW Pickersgill, reprinted in stereotype in 1840, 1841, and1843, it would be easy to look past the competing strains in Wordsworth’s efforts to consolidate anew his reputation in 1820. In what follows I shall be concerned chiefly to parse the tensions arising between three impulses in that project: to establish himself as a national poet, to record his awareness of passing time, and to posit the stability of art beyond time. Wordsworth’s first publication in 1820 was The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and Other Poems. To which is annexed, A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, In the North ofEngland, which appeared in late April. The thirty-three sonnets track the river from its origins “on the confines of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire,” as the introductory statement declares, to its fall into the Irish Sea, staged as the poet’s quest for origins:“I seek the birth-place of a native Stream”(I: 9). The sequence proceeds on several levels at once, from morning to evening, from life to death (and eternity), and from past to present, but Wordsworth emphasizes the primacy of the actual topographical by joining to the sonnet series an expanded version of his “Introduction to some Views of the Lakes, by the Reverend Joseph Wilkinson” from 1810, justified by “its having been written in the same spirit which dictated several of the poems, and from a belief that it will tend materially to illustrate
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