Description: Wordsworth's Fun, Paperback by Bevis, Matthew, ISBN 022665219X, ISBN-13 9780226652191, Brand New, Free shipping in the US &;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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Book Title: Wordsworth's Fun
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Wordsworth's Fun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Poetry, Humor, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 15.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Matthew Bevis
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
