Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity

by David Perkins

This book presents not just the Romantic Wordsworth, but Wordsworth as part of a large historical movement in poetry, beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing to the present day. It concentrates on the difficult, much discussed, but little analyzed problem of "sincerity" in poetry, which it treats both critically and historically, as a demand relatively new in Wordsworth's time and still with us. It contains an extended criticism of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674424239
• ISBN13: 9780674424234
• Release Date: February 1964
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"