Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics explores the identity, role, and subjectivity of the speaker in Wordsworth s finest and best-known longer lyrics -- "Tintern Abbey", "Resolution and Independence", "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", and "Elegiac Stanzas". Because Wordsworth is the most autobiographical poet of the romantic period, and perhaps in the English language, readers naturally take the speaker to be the poet himself or, as Wordsworth says in his prefaces and essays, "the poet in his own person".Some readers allow for a fictional dimension in the characterization of the speaker and refer to him as a persona; others treat him as a biographical self, defined in literary, political, historical, or cultural terms. Leon Waldorf examines the critical issues posed by these different understandings of the speaker's identity and argues for a conception of Wordsworth's lyrical "I" that deals with the dramatic and psychological complexities of the speaker's act of self-representation.Taking concepts from Freud and Winnicott, this book presents a psychoanalytic model for defining the speaker and conceptualizing his subjectivity. Waldorf suggests that the lyrical "I" in each poem is a transitional self of the poet. The poem offers, in the suspended moment and cultural space of lyrical form, a self-dramatization in which the speaker attempts to act out, in the sense of both performing and attempting to achieve, a reconstitution and transformation of the self.In a series of close readings that provide formalistic and psychological analysis, the book shows that the major lyrics contain compelling evidence that Wordsworth devoted much of his poetic art to each speaker's act ofself-dramatization. The various strategies that each speaker employs and the self-dramatizing character of his utterance are theorized and assimilated into an understanding of the subjectivity he represents.Waldorf concludes that Wordsworth's lyrical "I" requires a conception of subjectivity that gives greater recognition to its individual, psychological dimensions and to the art of self-representation in each poem than recent Wordsworth criticism has provided. This well-written and elegantly theorized book will be appreciated by anyone interested in Wordsworth or in Romantic poetry.
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评分这本书的装帧设计简直是一场视觉上的盛宴,那种深邃的靛蓝色封皮,配上烫金的字体,透露着一种低调的奢华感。我是一个视觉驱动型读者,如果书拿在手里没有一定的“美感”,我很难产生持续阅读的动力。这本诗集显然在这一点上做足了功课。内页的留白处理得恰到 দুর্ভোগ,让每一首诗都有足够的呼吸空间,眼睛在阅读长句时不会感到拥挤或疲惫。更值得称赞的是,它似乎抓住了某种“时代精神”的精髓,用一种现代的、极简的排版方式来呈现古典的诗歌,形成了一种奇妙的对话。我甚至花了很长时间去欣赏扉页上那幅不太清晰的插画,它像是某个速写本上的随手一笔,却精准地捕捉了某种瞬间的情绪——那种介于沉思与恍惚之间的状态。我感觉这不仅仅是一本诗集,更像是一件可以放在书架上展示的艺术品。对于那些追求阅读体验和收藏价值的朋友来说,单是这份用心制作的排版和选材,就值回票价了。它让我重新审视了“阅读”这件事,原来阅读可以是如此优雅和沉静的仪式。
评分这本精装版诗集,拿到手里沉甸甸的,纸张的质感非常舒服,带着一种旧时光的厚重感。我本来是对“词人”这个身份抱持着一种敬而远之的态度,总觉得那些字句高悬于生活之上,难以触及。但翻开这本选集,尤其是那些关于湖泊、山峦和童年记忆的篇章,我立刻被那种近乎呼吸的亲密感吸住了。它不是在炫技,更像是在邀请你一同在清晨的薄雾中散步,脚下是湿润的草地,耳边是风拂过树叶的沙沙声。我尤其欣赏编者在选篇上展现出的那种克制与精准,没有一股脑塞进晦涩难懂的长篇史诗,而是精心挑选了那些最能体现诗人内心挣扎与自然和解的片段。读到那些描绘“孤独”与“崇高”并存的诗句时,我仿佛看见了诗人站在伦德湖边,心中涌动着巨大的情感,但言语却异常平静,如同深潭。这种张力,让阅读体验充满了回味。它不像某些经典那样需要查阅大量的注释才能勉强理解其时代背景,而是更直接地诉诸于读者的五感。每一次翻阅,都能发现一些先前忽略的细节,比如一个微妙的词语选择,或是一句看似简单实则蕴含着深刻哲思的排比。
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