Wordsworth and Feeling ─ The Poetry of an Adult Child

Wordsworth and Feeling returns to Wordsworth's personal history in order to locate and contextualize some of the most remarkable poetry in the English language.
In this study, G. Kim Blank details how this poetry evolves out of Wordsworth's radical subjectivity, but the most pressing feature of that subjectivity is the cluster of subjects - loss, guilt, suffering, endurance, death - which appears throughout much of his poetry up until 1802-4.

G. Kim Blank is in the English Department at the University of Victoria, and presently works as Director of Graduate Studies.