The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... haunting awareness of it as purposive and even alien, and from that concomitant nature-consciousness and selfconsciousness to words that restore the world's body, without idolatry or the denial of something in either nature or ...
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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 elation English epigram epitaph evokes experience eyes feeling fiat ghostly Goethe Goethe’s Grasmere Greek Greek Anthology Hartman haunted Hegel Heidegger Heidegger’s human imagination influence inscription interpretation Jacques Lacan kind language light literary Lyrical Ballads metaphor Milton mind mode myth nature nature’s o’er passion perhaps personification Phenomenology phrase poem poet poet’s poetic poetry Prelude prophetic psychoanalysis question reader reading reflection relation rhetoric Riffaterre River Duddon Romance sacred scripture 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