Wordsworth Day by Day
Praise for Wordsworth Day by Day
“Boldly flaunting the crossing of genres, Jeffrey Robinson's Wordsworth Day by Day is literary criticism's fully present response to that medieval classic and devotional text, the Book of Hours. With stunning scholarship and passion Robinson creates a post-modern breviary on Wordsworth's poetics that is rigorously meditative and inquiring in its illuminating stroll. A visionary diary, a day by day collaboration with Wordsworthian vitality and the slow grace of that poetic freedom.”—Maureen Owen, author of American Rush.
“Jeffrey Robinson's extraordinary book goes way past criticism ‘as we know it,’ to offer a reading-through (sometimes, in Cage's phrase, a writing-through) of Wordsworth & other arch Romantics. In the manner of a spiritual diary he sets out to talk - on a day to day basis & in the presence of [Wordsworth's] poems - of what he sees in them & often, beautifully, to transform or, as he says, deform them. More than that, as in his other recent work combining Romanticism & the experimental modernism to which it leads, Robinson brings Wordsworth into the present, makes of him not only his William Wordsworth but ours as well.”—Jerome Rothenberg, author of Khurbn and A Paradise of Poets