Buried communities : Wordsworth and the bonds of mourning
"Kurt Fosso's Buried Communities analyzes the social relationship between mourning and community in William Wordsworth's writings from 1785 to 1814. Buried Communities situates Wordsworth as a reformist during a time of social and political crisis, for whom mourning promised to bind together his disaffected countrymen and disjointed world. With its sociological vantage and strong commitment to historical explanation, the book illuminates an important, previously unseen vista for understanding this Romantic poet's representations of death and grief and significantly reframes the cultural dynamics of the Romantic period in Britain."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 292 pages ; 24 cm
9780791459591, 9780791459607, 0791459594, 0791459608
52559215
A "world of shades": the birth of community in the juvenilia
Grief and dwelling in the Cambridge poems, including An Evening Walk
Genre, politics, and community in the Salisbury Plain poems
Shades of mourning and the one life in The Ruined Cottage
Elegies, epitaphs, and legacies of loss in Lyrical Ballads
Grieving and dwelling in the five-book prelude and home at Grasmere
"A new controul" in p[poems in two volumes and the excursion