ENGL 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Karr, Linguistic Performance
19 Aug 2019
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Wordsworths preface - - > poetry and art refreshing itself with vernacular language. Literature questioning its own language. Cyclical nature of criticism of bookishness. Wordsworth, then pound and eliot. A kind if manifesto of the return to the real language of men. But wordsworths call also particular to his context. Politics of french revolution and political egalitarianism. Also turn away from radical politics of reign of terror. Rise of empirical science and plain communicability. Methodology of the essay one of procedure and testing one"s own mind. W"s essay much more formal than lamb"s easy, playful tone. W trying to anticipate criticism of his work. Formal tone trying to give his work reputability. Almost inviting criticism, making his work seem worthy of criticism. Explaining his method to show that there is a method/artfulness to his poetry. His essay sets out to release expression and simultaneously contain it. Stimulation of the city vs. stimulation in nature.
