The paper hopes to illustrate more generally the potential of a spatialised approach for Literary Studies but also the value of a spatial approach for Romantic textuality, through its capacity to allow free movement across and between the text in a fixed, published, state and the text in a state of process. Throughout, theoretical and textual ideas are grounded in close analysis of the poem itself in different manifestations. The final part of the paper begins to explore ideas of “mapping” in terms of readerly inhabitation of space, with particular reference to the mapping of manuscripts. View the profiles of professionals named 'Michael Wordsworth' on LinkedIn. From the moment of his first publication (in 1793), there has been no shortage of critics ready both to dismiss him and to idolise him. His bodily frame had been from youth to age. 1 The poem is one of Wordsworth's best-known poems and the subject of much critical literature. There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name An old man, stout of heart, and strong of limb. The fourth section returns to the published work of art as well as to a close focus on the spatialised speech act, centring analysis on Michael’s covenant. Wordsworth is a poet who never seems far from critics minds. ' Michael ' is a pastoral poem, written by William Wordsworth and first published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, a series of poems that were said to have begun the English Romantic movement in literature. These concepts are then explored through a discussion of the material relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, “Michael” and Christabel, in surviving drafts and copied texts as well as in the relationship between geographical place and compositional place for the writing of “Michael”. The first, “Theorising Spatiality”, establishes a basis for considerations of space and place using the theorists already mentioned, before the second section moves on to attempt to define “textual place” and “textual space”. Textually, it explores such ideas through Wordsworth’s poem “Michael” considered across all its textual states. Theoretically, the paper draws upon the work of Merleau-Ponty and Michel de Certeau. It does so by exploring the place-specific nature of the spatialised speech act, for which a particular geographical location is central to meaning in multiple ways. As the second of two linked papers, this piece further advances the interpretation of the text in a state of process and as a published work through the analysis of literary speech acts.
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