Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry
Editor(s): Spencer Hall, Jonathan Ramsey
Pages: x & 182 pp.
Published: 1986
ISBN: 9780873524964
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
A central figure of the English Romantic movement and the author of scores of canonical works, William Wordsworth is a mainstay of literature courses ranging from freshmen surveys to upper-level seminars. The essays in this collection discuss teaching the poet in these and other settings, using a variety of critical perspectives and pedagogical strategies.
This Approaches volume, like others in the MLA series, is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," surveys editions, anthologies, student readings, reference works, background studies, and critical scholarship. Part 2, "Approaches," comprises thirty essays by experienced instructors, beginning with two personal reflections on how Wordsworth courses have changed since the 1950s and on how rewarding teaching the poet can be. Thirteen essays focus on specific works, including Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, the Immortality Ode, and selected sonnets. Eight position the poetry in historical, literary, or theoretical contexts. Other contributions describe ways of teaching Wordsworth at a two-year college, along with the visual arts, or in a modern poetry course.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry
PART 1: MATERIALS
Spencer Hall
- Editions
- Teaching Editions: Selections and Collections
- Teaching Editions: Individual Works
- Anthologies
- Standard Reference Editions
- Readings for Students and Teachers
- Reference Works
- Recommended Student Readings
- Romantic Contexts
- Studies of Wordsworth
Aids to Teaching
PART 2: APPROACHES
On Teaching Wordsworth
Teaching Wordsworth from the 1950s to the 1980s
Herbert Lindenberger
On Failing to Teach Wordsworth
Peter J. Manning
Selected Pedagogical Approaches
Teaching Wordsworth to Minority Students
Muriel Mellown
Pre- and Postreading Activities: Teaching Wordsworth at a Two-Year College
Mark Reynolds
Teaching Wordsworth by Response
Jared Curtis
Teaching Wordsworth's Style: A Cumulative Approach
Jack H. Haeger
Wordsworth and the Sister Arts
Nicholas O. Warner
A Thematic Arrangement of the Major Texts
Anthony John Harding
Two Honors Courses on Wordsworth and Criticism
Craig Howes
Teaching Individual Texts
Scorn Not the Sonnet
Spencer Hall
The Preface in Relation to the Lyrical Ballads
Judith W. Page
What Wordsworth Has Made of Man: Teaching the Lyrical Ballads
John T. Ogden
Verbal Repetitions in "Tintern Abbey"
Patricia L. Skarda
That the Center Hold: "Michael" and the "Spots of Time"
Edward Duffy
The Two Selves in Wordsworth's Middle Lyrics
John Milstead
Teaching the Immortality Ode with Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode"
John L. Mahoney
Contexts for Teaching the Immortality Ode
Jonathan Ramsey
"A Power to Virtue Friendly": On Teaching "The Ruined Cottage"
Lisa Steinman
Teaching the Two-Part (1799) Prelude
Jonathan Wordsworth
Teaching the 1850 Prelude
Anthony J. Franzese
Books 10 and 11 of The Prelude: The French Revolution and the Poet's Vocation
Charles Rzepka
Mount Snowdon and the Wordsworthian Sublime
Wayne Glausser
Literary and Historical Contexts
Wordsworth and Milton
J. Douglas Kneale
After The Prelude: The Historicity of Wordsworth's Ideas
Francis Russell Hart
Sympathy and Imagination: Wordsworth and English Romantic Poetry
John Hodgson
Wordsworth and Modern Poetry
Allan Chavkin
Theoretical Perspectives
Teaching Wordsworth and Women
Anne K. Mellor
A Psychobiographical Approach to Wordsworth's Goslar Poetry
Richard E. Matlak
Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry from the Perspective of a Poetics of Speech
Don H. Bialostosky
Deconstructing Wordsworth
Tilottama Rajan
Works Cited
Index
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