The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History , " New Literary History , vol . 6 , No. 2 , Winter 1975 , pp . 393-413 ; " The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis : Riffaterre's Interpretation of Wordsworth's ... William , 1770-1850 – Criticism ...
... Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History , " New Literary History , vol . 6 , No. 2 , Winter 1975 , pp . 393-413 ; " The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis : Riffaterre's Interpretation of Wordsworth's ... William , 1770-1850 – Criticism ...
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... Wordsworth could see this much ( as could some Enlightenment writers as well — Edward Young and William Collins , for example ) . And it is not quite true that his response was merely to reject all tradition . Scholars have stressed ...
... Wordsworth could see this much ( as could some Enlightenment writers as well — Edward Young and William Collins , for example ) . And it is not quite true that his response was merely to reject all tradition . Scholars have stressed ...
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... William Collins . It says something about our moment in criticism that we prefer the preacherly and excited writing of French culture - critics to the sober lights of Wordsworth and Ashbery , or even to Thoreau's Walden and passages in ...
... William Collins . It says something about our moment in criticism that we prefer the preacherly and excited writing of French culture - critics to the sober lights of Wordsworth and Ashbery , or even to Thoreau's Walden and passages in ...
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... William Carlos Williams's " The Classic is the local fully realized , words marked by a place , " are more obviously true of English poetry that took its direction from Wordsworth . Coleridge , instead , displaced himself , most ...
... William Carlos Williams's " The Classic is the local fully realized , words marked by a place , " are more obviously true of English poetry that took its direction from Wordsworth . Coleridge , instead , displaced himself , most ...
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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