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Overview"Featuring an extended introduction by scholar of British Romanticism, Alan Vardy, Fragments consists of Wordsworth's philosophico-aesthetic prose fragment ""The Sublime & the Beautiful"" and ""Hawkshead & the Ferry."" While a fragmented text, unfinished, almost certainly abandoned by the author, the difficulties of the former text no longer appear fatal so much as evidence of Wordsworth's rigorous struggle to come to terms not only with his own aesthetic experiences, but with the philosophical aesthetics of his epoch. What were once read as confusions may now be seen as productive of complex accounts of lived affective experiences. In critical terms, current aesthetic occupations have perhaps finally found Wordsworth's text. By placing the prose fragment in a separate appendix, the original editors of Wordsworth's Prose Works removed it from its actual place in The Unpublished Tour. New analysis of the manuscripts reveals that ""The Sublime & the Beautiful"" is actually part of the Tour. In reprinting the ""Hawkshead & the Ferry"" section of the Tour, our edition restores this original context, lost in the standard Oxford edition. The prose fragment begins in the precise place where ""Hawkshead & the Ferry"" ends - on the west side of Windermere looking north to the Langdale pikes. Were the missing pages of ""The Sublime & the Beautiful"" to be recovered, the transition from picturesque viewpoint to speculation on the philosophical status of that view would be apparent. Understanding the significance of our affective response to natural objects could not be more central to a Wordsworthian poetics predicated on the internalization of aesthetic sensations into perceptions and ideas, associations of one kind or another, and finally into the very stuff of the poetry. Fragmented or not, this prose treatise on a subject of such centrality to the poet's project can no longer be ignored. It is this general neglect that the present text hopes to address by publishing these fragments on their own for the very first time." Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Wordsworth , Rainer J Hanshe , Alan VardyPublisher: Contra Mundum Press Imprint: Contra Mundum Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781940625027ISBN 10: 1940625025 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 03 December 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |