Wordsworth & Word-Preserving Arts : Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work

Simonsen, Peter

Palgrave Macmillan（2007/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.／サイズ 7 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230524811
• DDC分類 821.7

基本説明

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

Full Description

By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction The Return of the Visible and Romantic Ekphrasis: Wordsworth in the Visual Art Culture of Romanticism Typographic Inscription: The Art of 'Word-Preserving' in Wordsworth's Later Inscriptions 'If Mine Had Been the Painter's Hand': Wordsworth's Collaboration with Sir George Beaumont The Sonnet as Visual Poetry: Italics in 'After-Thought' The Book of Ekphrasis: Yarrow Revisited, And Other Poems 'The Marble Index of a Mind': Frontispiece Portraiture and the Image of Late Wordsworth Bibliography Index