Skip to content

Booksellers & Trade Customers: Sign up for online bulk buying at trade.atlanticbooks.com for wholesale discounts

Booksellers: Create Account on our B2B Portal for wholesale discounts

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

by Thomas H. Ford
Sold out
Current price ₹2,585.00
Original price ₹3,976.00
Original price ₹3,976.00
Original price ₹3,976.00
(-35%)
₹2,585.00
Current price ₹2,585.00

Imported Edition - Ships in 4-6 weeks

Free Shipping in India on orders above Rs. 500

Request Bulk Quantity Quote
+91
Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781108441032
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 288
  • Original Price: GBP 32.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 391 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.

Ford, Thomas H.: - Thomas H. Ford is a Lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has translated Boris Groys's The Communist Postscript (2010), co-edited A Cultural History of Climate Change (2016), and had articles published in journals including New Literary History, ELH, European Romantic Review and Australian Literary Studies.

Trusted for over 49 years

Family Owned Company

Secure Payment

All Major Credit Cards/Debit Cards/UPI & More Accepted

New & Authentic Products

India's Largest Distributor

Need Support?

Whatsapp Us