Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index
A "world of shades": the birth of community in the juvenilia -- Grief and dwelling in the Cambridge poems, including An Evening Walk -- Genre, politics, and community in the Salisbury Plain poems -- Shades of mourning and the one life in The Ruined Cottage -- Elegies, epitaphs, and legacies of loss in Lyrical Ballads -- Grieving and dwelling in the five-book prelude and home at Grasmere -- "A new controul" in p[poems in two volumes and the excursion
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"Kurt Fosso's Buried Communities analyzes the social relationship between mourning and community in William Wordsworth's writings from 1785 to 1814. Buried Communities situates Wordsworth as a reformist during a time of social and political crisis, for whom mourning promised to bind together his disaffected countrymen and disjointed world. With its sociological vantage and strong commitment to historical explanation, the book illuminates an important, previously unseen vista for understanding this Romantic poet's representations of death and grief and significantly reframes the cultural dynamics of the Romantic period in Britain."--Jacket
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Criticism and interpretation
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Political and social views
Communities in literature
Death in literature
Elegiac poetry, English-- History and criticism
Grief in literature
Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century