The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Wordsworth's ' Yew - Trees ' , " New Literary History , vol . 7 , No. 1 , Autumn 1975 , pp . 165-89 . Chapter 6 : “ Blessing the Torrent : On Wordsworth's Later Style , " PMLA , 93 ( 1978 ) , pp . 196-204 , reprinted by permission of ...
... Wordsworth's ' Yew - Trees ' , " New Literary History , vol . 7 , No. 1 , Autumn 1975 , pp . 165-89 . Chapter 6 : “ Blessing the Torrent : On Wordsworth's Later Style , " PMLA , 93 ( 1978 ) , pp . 196-204 , reprinted by permission of ...
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... Wordsworth's Poetry marked an epoch in the study of that poet and of romanticism generally . It was perhaps the last mo- ment at which a ... Wordsworth . Against its risks vii Foreword Foreword: Wordsworth and Post-Enlightenment Culture.
... Wordsworth's Poetry marked an epoch in the study of that poet and of romanticism generally . It was perhaps the last mo- ment at which a ... Wordsworth . Against its risks vii Foreword Foreword: Wordsworth and Post-Enlightenment Culture.
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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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... Wordsworth's response to the Enlightenment . Since the challenge of the Enlightenment remains the core of subsequent culture , Wordsworth's response also founds his claim to continuing exemplary status . What needs to be registered is ...
... Wordsworth's response to the Enlightenment . Since the challenge of the Enlightenment remains the core of subsequent culture , Wordsworth's response also founds his claim to continuing exemplary status . What needs to be registered is ...
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... Wordsworth's Poetry , he characterized its mode as ' lying between ritual mourning and personal reminiscence . " Lucy is a " boundary being , " a human in whom we take a per- sonal interest , and yet more , the harbinger of a realm of ...
... Wordsworth's Poetry , he characterized its mode as ' lying between ritual mourning and personal reminiscence . " Lucy is a " boundary being , " a human in whom we take a per- sonal interest , and yet more , the harbinger of a realm of ...
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