The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Blessing the Torrent : On Wordsworth's Later Style , " PMLA , 93 ( 1978 ) , pp . 196-204 , reprinted by permission of the Modern Language Association of America . Chapter 7 : " Words , Wish , Worth : Wordsworth , " by Geoffrey Hartman ...
... Blessing the Torrent : On Wordsworth's Later Style , " PMLA , 93 ( 1978 ) , pp . 196-204 , reprinted by permission of the Modern Language Association of America . Chapter 7 : " Words , Wish , Worth : Wordsworth , " by Geoffrey Hartman ...
Page v
... Blessing the Torrent 75 7. Words , Wish , Worth 90 8. Diction and Defense 120 9. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis 129 10. " Timely Utterance " Once More 152 11. The Poetics of Prophecy 163 12. Elation in Hegel and Wordsworth 182 ...
... Blessing the Torrent 75 7. Words , Wish , Worth 90 8. Diction and Defense 120 9. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis 129 10. " Timely Utterance " Once More 152 11. The Poetics of Prophecy 163 12. Elation in Hegel and Wordsworth 182 ...
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... blessing , naming . " And yet any tendency to take leave of the real world for a transcendent or apocalyptic realm is chastized , and natural mediators are re - inserted . Temporality likewise is middle : we get stopping or fixation ...
... blessing , naming . " And yet any tendency to take leave of the real world for a transcendent or apocalyptic realm is chastized , and natural mediators are re - inserted . Temporality likewise is middle : we get stopping or fixation ...
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... blessing , of curse . We may be prepared to see in these simply psychological modes . Where we find in Wordsworth what can be described as an attempt to convert a divine or willful imperative into a responsive or timely utterance , this ...
... blessing , of curse . We may be prepared to see in these simply psychological modes . Where we find in Wordsworth what can be described as an attempt to convert a divine or willful imperative into a responsive or timely utterance , this ...
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... blessed by a fruitful mixture of language- strains , and a remarkable array of idiosyncratic writers , has not been " religious " about anyone , with the possible exception of Shakespeare . To liven things up , an intellectual contest ...
... blessed by a fruitful mixture of language- strains , and a remarkable array of idiosyncratic writers , has not been " religious " about anyone , with the possible exception of Shakespeare . To liven things up , an intellectual contest ...
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