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  • Chapter 3 - Wordsworth in Homage:

  • Tim Fulford, De Montfort University, Leicester
  • Book:
    Experimentalism in Wordsworth's Later Poetry
    Published online:
    15 June 2023
    Print publication:
    29 June 2023, pp 54-87

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I assess a pair of poems linked by their occasion – the moon seen from the seashore – by their place of composition – the Cumbrian coast—by their date – the mid 1830s – and by their scenario – the lonely sailor at sea in the dark allegorising men and women’s position in the world. I construe the poems as among Wordsworth’s most searching meditations on disappointment, alienation, loss and depression – and on poetry’s role in articulating aspects of spacetime that might mollify, if not cure, what he reveals to be the human predicament.