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THE WORDSWORTHIAN AND THE BYRONIC ROMANTIC CANON IN THE “SUPPOSED CONFESSIONS” OF ALFRED TENNYSON

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Modrzewska M.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

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2020

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vol. 18

79-81

PL

W historii odbioru obu poetów – Williama Wordswortha (1770–1850) i George’a Gordona Byrona (1788–1824) – zwykle przeciwstawiano ich twórczość jako dwa odległe bieguny angielskiego romantyzmu. Wordsworth rozpoznany został jako prekursor romantyzmu w poezji angielskiej, a Byron uznany za najważniejszego przedstawiciela drugiej generacji angielskich romantyków. W wierszu “Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind Not in Unity with Itself” (1830) Alfreda Tennysona oba kanony brytyjskiego romantyzmu – Wordswortha i Byrona – pogodzone zostają w lirycznym stylu konfesyjnym Tennysona i w wytworzonej przez niego chrześcijańsko-Faustowskiej ambiwalencji w taki sposób, że czytanie Tennysona musi nieuchronnie być konceptualne i pozostawać w odniesieniu do języka i znaków Biblii, czyli kodu dobrze znanego zarówno Wordsworthowi, jak i Byronowi. Metaforyczne znaczenia „miejsca i siedliska” Wordswortha i Byronowskiego „przemieszczania się i podróży” jest literackim dziedzictwem pielgrzymowania poprzez idee i koncepcje, które prowadziły Tennysona do poczucia osobistej i językowej wolności w świecie, w którym zbiorowy głos nowoczesnego społeczeństwa jest przygnębiająco obecny i przeniknięty niepokojem. Wiersz Tennysona przejawia afiliację poety z wcześniejszą angielską poezją romantyczną (Wordsworth), którą rozpoznać można w użyciu charakterystycznych motywów, ale przypomina także liryczny styl poezji konfesyjnej Percy’ego Bysshe Shelley’a, Johna Keatsa i Lorda Byrona.

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For a long time the two poets William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) have been considered mutually exclusive in the reception of English Romanticism, Wordsworth being the founder of English Romanticism, and Byron being the most important representative of the second generation of English Romantics. In the “Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind Not in Unity with Itself” (1830) by Alfred Tennyson both the Wordsworthian and the Byronic types of Romanticism are reconciled in Tennyson’s confessional lyrical style and his Christian-Faustian ambivalence, and the reading of Tennyson must inevitably be conceptual with reference to biblical language and signs, the code with which Wordsworth as well as Byron was well acquainted. The figurative meaning of Wordsworthian “dwelling” and Byronic “travelling” is the literary heritage of wanderings through concepts and ideas which lead Tennyson towards a sense of personal and linguistic freedom in a world in which the collective voice of modern society is overwhelmingly present and permeated with anxiety. The poem exhibits Tennyson’s affiliation with earlier English Romantic poetry (Wordsworth), traceable in the use of motifs, but it is also reminiscent of the confessional lyrical style in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron.

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“Vain dalliance with misery”: Moral Therapy in William Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage”

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Kałowski P.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2018

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issue 27/1

21-33

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The following paper will examine how (male) speakers in William Wordsworth’s “The Baker’s Cart” and “Incipient Madness,” which eventually became reworked into “The Ruined Cottage,” narrate the histories of traumatised women. It will be argued that by distorting the women’s accounts of suffering into a didactic lesson for themselves, the poems’ speakers embody the tension present in the chief psychiatric treatment of the Romantic period, moral therapy, which strove to humanise and give voice to afflicted subjects, at the same time trying to contain and eventually correct their “otherness.”

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Artistic Conceptualization of Power in William Wordsworth’s Poetry

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Romanyshyn N.

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2022

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vol. Special Issue

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issue 18

141-155

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This article discusses the specificity of poetic conceptualization of power in the poetry of William Wordsworth. The focus is on the diversity of textual images of a human being in general, such as an individual or collective subject, and on the philosophical concepts of human life and destiny positioned by the authors in the centre of artistic reflection synthesizing the appropriate social pragmatics. The research is based on the cognitive-discursive approach and proceeds from the scientific ideas about the dynamics of correlation between the cultural-historical paradigm and artistic thinking, the cognitive power of artistic image and artistic text as a linguistic sign of national culture. It involves the integration of research tools of linguistic and cognitive stylistics, cultural and literary studies, which builds a vector of analysis from the concept of power as a social phenomenon to its embodiment, explicit and implicit, at different levels of textual matter.

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Romantyzm i narodziny myśli postsekularnej

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Warchala M.

Logos i Ethos

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2014

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issue 1(36)

73–85

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The purpose of the paper is to use the concept of postsecularism to interpret some selected themes of the British and German Romanticism. Postsecularism is here understood in the sense given to this term by Jürgen Habermas, as a thought which: 1) takes Western secularization to be largely an accomplished fact, but at the same time: 2) claims that religion is an important source of meanings suitable for the secularized public sphere of (post)modern societies. The main contention of the paper is that one can find the roots of the postsecular thought thus understood in the period of Romanticism, in the works of such authors as William Wordswort, William Blake or Novalis. The Romantics assume that the main Christian intuitions, symbols or themes may be “saved”, but only within a highly idiosyncratic and heterodox conceptual framework.

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Artistic Conceptualization of Native Land in William Wordsworth’s Poetry

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Romanyshyn N.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2021

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issue 12

137-146

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The paper focuses on revealing linguistic and cognitive mechanisms that underlie the formation and functioning of verbal images of native land in William Wordsworth’s poetic system. The artistic concept of Motherland is subjected to linguistic-poetic interpretation. The national specificity of Wordsworth’s poetics reveals itself in the dominance of ethnographic details and naturalness of description, foregrounding the idea of inseparability of individual personal fate and the processes of ethnic environment transformation. Everyday themes and dramatic effect of personal and intimate events in the life of a poetic persona are ascribed symbolic senses and reflect the universal and national destiny of England at the turn of the century.

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“Never Some Easy Flashback”

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Armstrong C.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2012

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vol. 19

6-26

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This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter ego. Wordsworth’s importance for Farley is shown to inhere not only in the Lake Poet’s use of personal memory, but also the close connection between his poetry and place, as well as a strongly self-reflective strain that results in an interminable process of self-determination. Farley’s independence as a poet also comes across, though, and is for instance in evidence in his desire to avoid the “booby trap” of too simple appropriation of the methods and motifs of his Romantic predecessor.

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