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Buried Communities : Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning.

Fosso, Kurt.

Buried Communities : Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (310 pages)

Intro -- Buried Communities -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. A "World of Shades": The Birth of Community in the Juvenilia -- 2. Grief and Dwelling in the Cambridge Poems, including An Evening Walk -- 3. Genre, Politics, and Community in the Salisbury Plain Poems -- 4. The Shades of Mourning and the One Life in The Ruined Cottage -- 5. Elegies, Epitaphs, and Legacies of Loss in Lyrical Ballads -- 6. Grieving and Dwelling in the Five-Book Prelude and Home at Grasmere -- 7. "A New Controul" in Poems in Two Volumes and The Excursion -- NOTES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Offers an explanation for the poet's mysterious and longstanding preoccupation with death and grief.

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Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Political and social views.
Death in literature.
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Elegiac poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Communities in literature.


Electronic books.

PR5892.D35 -- B87 2004eb

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