Wordsworth’s Antipodean Poetics

This essay describes how Wordsworth’s poetry engages with geographical materialism to inscribe an antipodean aesthetics that raise questions about imaginative interactions between proximate and distant. These become crucial representation of antithesis reversal across time as well space. It considers Wordsworth introduced the politics colonization contemplate status local indigeneity in relation metaphors global cartography. then addresses figures transposition, self-contradiction doubling permeate The Excursion concludes by suggesting ways which such imaginary can be seen integral larger designs poetry.