From Westmorland To Westmoreland: Taming The Tropics

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Published: May 22, 2020
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Intertextuality Postcolonialism Romanticism

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Tony O’Neill
Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English

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The contention is that William Wordsworth was a laureate of Empire, a stance inextricable from his identity as a Nature poet. Wordsworth's contribution to colonial discourse will be examined in a postcolonial light through a historicist approach to his own poetry and non-fiction combined with an intertextual comparison with the Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison's "To Mr William Wordsworth. Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland" and a “A Quartet of Daffodils” which present a contemporary perspective on the iconic Nature poet's legacy in the English-speaking Caribbean, one that emphasises Wordsworth’s relative indifference to the plight of the enslaved.

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O’Neill, . T. . (2020). From Westmorland To Westmoreland: Taming The Tropics. Journal of Studies in the English Language, 15(1), 1–30. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jsel/article/view/217569
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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2020): January - June 2020
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