Peter J. Manning

Detaching Lamb's Thoughts

This essay speculates on the ways in which Lambs essays seek to detach themselves from, or at any rate to resist absorption by, the particular circumstances of the London Magazine to which they nonetheless remain tied. Lamb draws out of periodical publishing an identity that disguises the commercial nature of that enterprise, and then seeks to elude the concretion, the historical embedding, of that identity. The name of this double process is Elia, and it is the workings of this persona that mark the unsettled situation of the text.

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The Persian Wordsworth

At the conclusion of “Poems Composed During a Tour in Scotland, and on the English Border, in the Autumn of 1831,” Wordsworth proposes that the relationship between the individual poems is like that between “those Shapes distinct / That yet survive ensculptured on the walls / Of Palace, or of Temple, ’mid the wreck / Of famed Persepolis.” Exploring its resonances counterpoints the stability of the image. Persia had become important to the British plan to thwart Napoleon’s eastward expansion, and remained enmeshed in jockeyings for European power. Political concerns intensified interest in Persian travels; the Persian ambassador to England had become fashionable, and the inspiration for popular novels. Persepolis might have been read as the very instance of the topical. Wordsworth’s late manner releases multiple perspectives on east and west, past and present, the enduring and the contemporary, above all, on the poet’s immersion in, and resistance to, history.

Wordsworth in Youth and Age

The encounter between youth and age is familiar to any reader of Wordsworth, who populated his early poetry with figures of advanced age. Readers of Lyrical Ballads will recall Walter Ewbanks, Michael, and Simon Lee. The dramatic energy of the poems often arises from the gap between such imagined figures of age and a callow narrator, as in Resolution and Independence. The configuration attests to Wordsworths urgent search in his 20s and 30s to discover how one gets from an unsettled here to an unknown there, but it is a strategy that became less available as the poet aged and became a public figure. To shed light on this significant trajectory, I bring to bear a variety of perspectives, including close reading, biography, textual and book history, the relations of word and image, and reception, on a juxtaposition of The Two April Mornings and The Fountain (both 1800) and one of Wordsworths least-known poems, To an Octogenarian (1846).

Wordsworth’s “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” and Media of the City

Wordsworth’s 1846 sonnet “Illustrated Books and Newspapers” has gained notoriety as the prize exhibition, in the words of Gillen D’Arcy Wood, of the resistance of “the literary elite” to “the cultural influence of new visual media”: Discourse was deemed Man’s noblest attribute, And written words the glory of his hand; Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought—dominion vast and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land. A backward movement surely have we here, For manhood—back to childhood; for the age—Back towards caverned life’s first rude career. Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page! Must eyes be all in all, the tongue and ear Nothing? Heaven keep us from a lower stage!