TY - JOUR
AU - Roberts, Jonathan
AB - 638 reviews provides both a model of rigorously historical method in literary scholarship and a remin- der of the captivating power of Romantic expression. kevin gilmartin California Institute of Technology doi:10.1093/res/hgn128 Advance Access published on 21 August 2008 ANDREW BENNETT. Wordsworth Writing. Pp. xiiþ 250 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 72). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cloth, »50. The history of Wordsworth criticism is a history of Wordsworth walking, thinking, remembering, concealing, contemplating, reciting, in short, of Wordsworth doing pretty much everything except the one thing that (for Andrew Bennett) matters: writing. This isn’t a simple oversight, rather, it marks ‘a signi¢cant investment ^ cultural, ideological, psychological, intellectual, emotional, scholarly, educational, institutional ^ in a certain ¢guration of Wordsworth as a poet who doesn’t write, as a poet who, paradoxically, doesn’t write poetry’ (p. 4). By ‘writing’, Bennett means the physical act of putting pen to paper, the actual work of poetry. Look at all those paintings of Wordsworth, Bennett suggests: in hardly any of them is Wordsworth grafting. As both academics and literary tourists we’ve swallowed a rhetoric of inspiration, memory, extempore e¡usions and so on, and have sought out the gardens, groves and mountains where the ‘inspiration’ and 
TI - andrew bennett. Wordsworth Writing.
JF - The Review of English Studies
DO - 10.1093/res/hgn065
DA - 2008-09-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/andrew-bennett-wordsworth-writing-lmTne3PYzY
SP - 638
EP - 639
VL - 59
IS - 241
DP - DeepDyve
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