Description: “The next day Wordsworth arrived from Bristol at Coleridge’s cottage,” William Hazlitt recalled, “He answered in some degree to his friend’s description of him, but was more quaint and Don Quixote- like . . . there was a convulsive inclination to laughter about the mouth.” Hazlitt presents a Wordsworth who differs from the one we know—and, as Matthew Bevis argues in his radical new reading of the poet, this Wordsworth owed his quixotic creativity to a profound feeling for comedy.Wordsworth’s Fun explores the writer’s debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. Combining close reading with cultural analysis, Bevis travels many untrodden ways, studying Wordsworth’s interest in laughing gas, pantomime, the figure of the fool, and the value of play. Intrepid, immersive, and entertaining, Wordsworth’s Fun sheds fresh light on how one poet’s strange humor helped to shape modern literary experiment.
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EAN: 9780226652191
UPC: 9780226652191
ISBN: 9780226652191
MPN: N/A
Format: Paperback, 264 pages
Author: Matthew Bevis
Book Title: Bevis, M: Wordsworth's Fun by Matthew Bevis [Paper
Item Height: 2.3 cm
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.45 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
