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Author Wolfson, Susan J., 1948- author

Title The questioning presence : Wordsworth, Keats, and the interrogative mode in Romantic poetry / Susan J. Wolfson
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986

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Description 392 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: English romanticism and the interrogative mode -- Speaker as questioner in Lyrical Ballads, 1798 -- The reader questioned in Lyrical Ballads, 1800 -- Questioning dramatized: The Excursion, book 1 and beyond -- The Prelude and the interrogative origins of autobiography -- Fixing the balance: "Introduction" of The Prelude -- All gratulant if rightly understood: "Conclusion" of The Prelude -- Questions, mysteries, and philosophies: Keats reads the English poets -- Inquisitive gestures: Keats's early poems -- Narrative self-quizzing in Endymion -- "Shady visions" in Hyperion -- The romances: narrator as questioner -- The Odes : reader as questioner -- Last questionings: Lamia, The Fall of Hyperion, To Autum
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 373-384
Subject Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Sources.
Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Style.
Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Influence -- Keats
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Influence.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Style.
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Questioning in literature.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
LC no. 86006407
ISBN 0801419093 (alk. paper)