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- catalog abstract ""Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy. In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805, William A. Ulmer challenges this consensus by arguing that Wordsworth never abandoned his faith in a supernatural Deity and that the poet's theism included important Christian sympathies as early as 1798. By tracing the changes in Wordsworth's religious beliefs - from the early secular period to the later Anglican period - Ulmer reconstructs the strategic indirections by which the poet's faith shapes his major poems. In readings of The Ruined Cottage, the Pedlar narrative, "Tintern Abbey," the Prospectus, the Ode, The Prelude, and other texts, Ulmer presents a poet increasingly determined to stage the prophetic revelations of his poems against carefully established Christian backgrounds. Through this revisionary traditionalism, Wordsworth attempts to preserve England's Christian heritage by adapting it to modern needs. Revisionary in its own right, Ulmer's book provides an innovative perspective on Romantic natural supernaturalism and on William Wordsworth's religious poetics and intellectual development."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12325979.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy. In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805, William A. Ulmer challenges this consensus by arguing that Wordsworth never abandoned his faith in a supernatural Deity and that the poet's theism included important Christian sympathies as early as 1798. By tracing the changes in Wordsworth's religious beliefs - from the early secular period to the later Anglican period - Ulmer reconstructs the strategic indirections by which the poet's faith shapes his major poems. In readings of The Ruined Cottage, the Pedlar narrative, "Tintern Abbey," the Prospectus, the Ode, The Prelude, and other texts, Ulmer presents a poet increasingly determined to stage the prophetic revelations of his poems against carefully established Christian backgrounds. Through this revisionary traditionalism, Wordsworth attempts to preserve England's Christian heritage by adapting it to modern needs. Revisionary in its own right, Ulmer's book provides an innovative perspective on Romantic natural supernaturalism and on William Wordsworth's religious poetics and intellectual development."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-222) and index.".
- catalog description "Wordsworth's Faith -- Vain Belief: Wordsworth and the One Life -- Faith's Progress, 799-1804 -- Wordsworth and the Immortal Soul -- Soul's Progress: The Faith of The Prelude.".
- catalog extent "xv, 228 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791451534".
- catalog identifier "0791451542 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "821/.7 21".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR5892.R4 U46 2001".
- catalog subject "Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Religion.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Wordsworth's Faith -- Vain Belief: Wordsworth and the One Life -- Faith's Progress, 799-1804 -- Wordsworth and the Immortal Soul -- Soul's Progress: The Faith of The Prelude.".
- catalog title "The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805 / William A. Ulmer.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".