●Introduction
Part I The Prophetic as a Mode of Self-fashioning
Chapter 1 The Prelude:Prophetic Aspirations Revisited
Chapter 2 Wordsworth's Self-fashioning and the Prophetic:Personal Choice,Knowledge Economy and Contemporary Millennialism
Chapter 3 qhe Prophetic and Anxieties on Course to Self-fashioning
Part II The Prophetic as a Mode ofWriting
Chapter 4 Lyrical Ballads:Rupture and Continuity in Human Historv
Chapter 5 In the Name of the Nation:Wordsworth's National Concerns and the Prophetic
Chapter 6 History,Morality and the Apotheosis of the Animal:The White Doe ofRy~tone Encoded in the Prophetic
Chapter 7 Peter Bell:Moral Persuasion Gone Wrong
Conclusion
Bibliography
英國浪漫主義詩人威廉·華茲華斯僅是自然詩人嗎,抑或是人文主義詩人?本書給出了另一種視角。華茲華斯一生多產,創作生涯長達半個多世紀,其詩歌作品的語言風格和主題在各個階段也有所變化。然而,在他的創作中常常具有特定素和聲音貫穿,這在他“黃金十年”(1798-1808)創作的詩歌中體現得尤為明顯。本書著力探究這素的使用,旨在揭示華茲華斯詩歌文本中的預言聲音,以及詩人是如何針對文學市場和社會環境的變化來自我形塑國民詩人的身份的。除去廣為讀者熟知的《抒情歌謠集》(Lyrical Ballads)和《序曲》(The Prelude),本書也將華茲華斯目前較少為人研究的作品重新納入視野,包括《芬妮克筆記》(The Fenwick Notes)、《萊爾斯通的白母鹿》(The White Doe of Rylstone)以及《彼得·貝爾》(Peter Bell),以期有對詩人更為全面的展示。