“Rapt Auditors!” Burke and the Revision of Rhetorical Violence in Wordsworth’s The Prelude
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DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2019.1612580
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this essay, I return to Wordsworth’s apostrophe to Burke in book 7 of the 1850 Prelude, arguing that this passage is best understood as a revisionary meditation on rhetoric. The address to Burke… read more here.
Keywords: rhetoric; wordsworth; political rhetoric; auditors burke ... See more keywords
Wordsworth's Aeneid and the influence of its eighteenth-century predecessors
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DOI: 10.3366/tal.2017.0274
Abstract: William Wordsworth's attempt at translating Virgil's Aeneid reached as far as Book 4, and mostly survives in manuscript drafts. The literary influences behind it can be illuminated through the poet's correspondence, and analysed more fully… read more here.
Keywords: aeneid influence; wordsworth; influence eighteenth; eighteenth century ... See more keywords