Wordsworth's Literary Criticism

Download or read book Wordsworth's Literary Criticism written by W.J.B. Owen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974. Wordsworth, with Coleridge, is the major literary critic of the Romantic period. This volume assembles all of Wordsworth’s formal critical writings and a selection of critical comments from his correspondence. These documents are invaluable for Romantic poetry at large, and his theories — particularly on poetic diction, ordinary language and the nature of the creative process — inspired lively critical debate. This book discusses the nature and origin of Wordsworth’s criticism in general, and the literary tradition from which they sprang. The texts are succinctly annotated and there is a select bibliography. This book will be of interest to students of literature.