Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition Romantic Recapitulation

Sarah Houghton-Walker, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

Sarah Houghton-Walker began her career as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and has been a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College since 2007. She has published on a range of Romantic-period writers, and is also a founder and Co-Director of the Centre for John Clare Studies, based in the Cambridge University Faculty of English.

PART I: Introductory: Repetition in the Romantic Period
1. The Sense and the Sound of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
2. The Workings of Repetition in Romantic-Period Poetry
3. Contexts for Repetition in the Romantic Period
PART II: Wordsworthian Recapitulation
4. Repetition and Conjunction: the quiet work of and and or
5. Conjunction, Expansion, and Sublimity
6. Conjunctions, Repetition, and Revision
7. Connection, Recognition, and Return
8. 'The Thorn', Tautology, and Tragic Repetition
9. Crafted Repetition
10. Resounding Voices, Habitual Haunts: Recapitulation, Specifics, and Generals
11. Echo and Response
12. Coleridge and Repetition: A Comparative Case
13. Conclusion: Recapitulation and Sincerity
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