Re-reading The Excursion : a study of narrative, response and the Wordsworthian dramatic voice
Twentieth-century criticism has treated The Excursion, Wordsworth's long poem of 1814, as representative of the poet's decline. My Ph.D. thesis opposes this view, arguing for a fresh understanding of the poem through close consideration of narrative and the role of the reader. I suggest th...
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University of Cambridge
1999
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