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This scholarly examine provides a brand new political Wordsworth: an artist drawn to "autonomous" poetry's redistribution of have an effect on. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its iteration of human adventure and that means. He renders poetry a serious software that, via acute feeling, can assessment private and non-private existence.

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43; 1. 45). From this theme of corruption among the upper orders, Wordsworth quickly turns to the damage caused by promiscuity among the lower orders. Too much feeling (or too narrow a range of feeling, perhaps), he fears, quickly escalates into luxury and vice – disasters wherever they occur. While decadence sometimes ruins members of the middle and upper classes, among the poor such vice is often catastrophic: the ‘promiscuous intercourse to which [they] . . are compelled by the instincts of nature’ leads to the birth of children ‘they are unable to support’ Shaftesbury, Wordsworth and Affective Critique 13 (PrW 1.

However, it is Shaftesbury’s ‘undeniably major contribution’ to the genesis of the ‘Man 6 Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics of Feeling’ in Britain, most famously presented in Laurence Sterne’s novels, that is of greatest significance (C 1. 27). Expounded, disputed and developed in the writings of his disciple Francis Hutcheson, Shaftesbury’s thinking was behind the direction taken by British aesthetics in the eighteenth century, and was further promulgated in the verse of James Thomson and Mark Akenside, two of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s chief eighteenth-century precursors.

As the eighteenth century progressed, however, Whig aestheticians sought to put the regulation of affect onto a more transparent footing. Hume, Gerard and Burke, among others, demanded greater rigour of the philosophical discourse on aesthetics, and even suggested that the task required experts who specialised in the discipline – critics. This work of clarification revealed significant problems with the Whig project, but it also provided Wordsworth with added opportunity and material for his study of affect.

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