Wordsworth's Great Period Poems

This highly original and stimulating study presents rereadings of four major poems from Wordsworth's great period of creativity, 1798-1805: 'Tintern Abbey', 'Michael', the Intimations ode, and 'Peele Castle'. The approach can be defined as historicist. Professor Levinson's concern is to reveal beneath the profound philosophical and epistemological themes of these poems no less profound social and political pressures determining the shape of the work. These pressures arose from the conflicts of the age - the French Revolution, dramatic social changes in England -conflicts which posed a special challenge to writers such as Wordsworth who had reached intellectual maturity by way of the ideals of the Enlightenment.Levinson, Marjorie is the author of 'Wordsworth's Great Period Poems', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521308298 and ISBN 0521308291.