Description: This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which they emerged, and teasing out through extended close attention to the poetry itself the complexities of repetition and recapitulation.
Review Quotes: "Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition is a definitive study of the topic." -- Jessica Fay, University of Birmingham, UK
"...Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition builds its argument through close, even painstaking, attention to aspects of Wordsworth's art that have often been overlooked, underestimated, or even dismissed as faults...Houghton-Walker presents herself as an exemplary reader, patiently attuned to the many and varied moments of repetition-with-difference that help convey so powerfully the distinctive conceptual complexity and emotional energy of Wordsworth's verse." -- Brennan O'Donnell, The Wordsworth Circle "The pleasure of reading Wordsworth's Poetry of Repetition derives from its consistently insightful and attentive close readings of the textual detail of poems to which many readers are drawn: 'There was a boy', 'The Solitary Reaper', 'Tintern Abbey', 'We are Seven', as well as 'The Thorn'." -- Emma Mason, The Charles and Mary Lamb Journal