{"product_id":"reading-time-in-the-long-tess-somervell-9781474486149","title":"Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Time\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the long poem in the long eighteenth century as it navigated between narrative and description, progress and digression, and time and space. The long poem emerged, between 1660 and 1850, as a medium in which poets could shape and reshape time. Analysing Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomson's \u003ci\u003eThe Seasons\u003c\/i\u003e and Wordsworth's \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e, this study reveals how these poets used both the content and form of their long poems to intervene in contemporary debates about the temporalities of free will, nature and identity. \u003ci\u003eReading Time\u003c\/i\u003e argues that they use the figure of the prospect, the extended landscape, to imagine time as a space onto which different causal configurations could be mapped. In turn, readers have approached these poems as both temporal and spatial forms, as linear processes and as static structures, demonstrating how the long poem can shape a reader's own experience of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tess Somervell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474486142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474486149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d","brand":"Tess Somervell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458591600895,"sku":"9781474486149","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8bec157a-eae9-4cb3-9fc6-013be6a23252.jpg?v=1777405374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-time-in-the-long-tess-somervell-9781474486149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}