The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page xiv
... Prelude remained unpublished is not the issue : publishing it would not have helped , for insight into the public affairs of human beings can- not be authorized by recollections of childhood . For the first time in history , so far as I ...
... Prelude remained unpublished is not the issue : publishing it would not have helped , for insight into the public affairs of human beings can- not be authorized by recollections of childhood . For the first time in history , so far as I ...
Page xv
... Prelude traces imagination to its sources in childhood , it is the French Revolu- tion which emerges as the focus of the poet's own spirit when he returns home even before that event . In Britain , he finds himself out of sympathy with ...
... Prelude traces imagination to its sources in childhood , it is the French Revolu- tion which emerges as the focus of the poet's own spirit when he returns home even before that event . In Britain , he finds himself out of sympathy with ...
Page xxvi
... Prelude's eye - witness account of a phase of the French Revolution , for his type of autobiography ( putting the subject in question ) , and for the rhetoric of a few sublime episodes . Wordsworth's style , unfortified by the interest ...
... Prelude's eye - witness account of a phase of the French Revolution , for his type of autobiography ( putting the subject in question ) , and for the rhetoric of a few sublime episodes . Wordsworth's style , unfortified by the interest ...
Page xxvii
... Prelude and the great Ode ) to social feelings , rather than self - isolating visionary fancies , is not assured . Wordsworth is preeminently the poet of " dark passages " that lead from immature ecstasy to socialization . His theme of ...
... Prelude and the great Ode ) to social feelings , rather than self - isolating visionary fancies , is not assured . Wordsworth is preeminently the poet of " dark passages " that lead from immature ecstasy to socialization . His theme of ...
Page xxix
... Prelude XIV . This contrast of Coleridge and Wordsworth is not meant to devalue the former but to disclose a missed connection in England between philosophy and poetry , one that became a great divide . It is not philosophy that can be ...
... Prelude XIV . This contrast of Coleridge and Wordsworth is not meant to devalue the former but to disclose a missed connection in England between philosophy and poetry , one that became a great divide . It is not philosophy that can be ...
Contents
1 Wordsworth Revisited | 3 |
2 A Touching Compulsion | 18 |
3 Inscriptions and Romantic Nature Poetry | 31 |
4 False Themes and Gentle Minds | 47 |
5 Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History | 58 |
6 Blessing the Torrent | 75 |
7 Words Wish Worth | 90 |
8 Diction and Defense | 120 |
10 Timely Utterance Once More | 152 |
11 The Poetics of Prophecy | 163 |
12 Elation in Hegel and Wordsworth | 182 |
13 Wordsworth before Heidegger | 194 |
14 The Unremarkable Poet | 207 |
Notes | 223 |
Index | 241 |
9 The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis | 129 |
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abyss apocalyptic become beginning Blake blessing blind called child Classical Coleridge Coleridge's consciousness curse Danish Boy darkness death Devil's Bridge diction divine Dorothy Wordsworth echoes elation English epigram epitaph evokes experience eyes feeling fiat genius loci ghostly Goethe Goethe's Grasmere Greek Anthology Hartman haunted Hegel Heidegger Heidegger's human imagination inscription interpretation Intimations Ode Jacques Lacan kind language light literary Lyrical Ballads meaning metaphor Milton mind mode myth nature passion perhaps personification phrase poem poet poet's poetic Prelude prophetic psychoanalysis question reader reading relation rhetoric Riffaterre River Duddon Romance sacred scripture secular seems sense silence Simplon Pass Snowdon sonnet sound speak speech spirit stanza strange structure style sublime suggests temporal theme Theocritus things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion touch tradition tree utterance verse Viamala vision visionary voice William Wordsworth wish words Wordsworth writes Yew-Trees yews