The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page vii
... nature and par- ticularly in the poet's experience of nature during childhood , when he was most open to its varied and spirited influence . The language in which this recollected experience was transformed into the guide of later life ...
... nature and par- ticularly in the poet's experience of nature during childhood , when he was most open to its varied and spirited influence . The language in which this recollected experience was transformed into the guide of later life ...
Page viii
... nature . In this reception , the question of Hartman's method in reaching these conclu- sions was overlooked or assimilated to a familiar model . Despite a few references to continental thinkers , he appeared simply to have read ...
... nature . In this reception , the question of Hartman's method in reaching these conclu- sions was overlooked or assimilated to a familiar model . Despite a few references to continental thinkers , he appeared simply to have read ...
Page xv
... nature " that might be named / A revolution " : All else was progress on a self - same path On which with a diversity of pace I had been travelling ; this , a stride at once Into another region . ( Prelude , 1805 , X , 238-41 ) Yet the ...
... nature " that might be named / A revolution " : All else was progress on a self - same path On which with a diversity of pace I had been travelling ; this , a stride at once Into another region . ( Prelude , 1805 , X , 238-41 ) Yet the ...
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... nature : rural nature , but more generally a world that felt as ancient and immemorial as " rocks , and stones , and trees , " that encompassed , inanimate yet animating , the mind in its earth - walks . But the discovery prompt- ing me ...
... nature : rural nature , but more generally a world that felt as ancient and immemorial as " rocks , and stones , and trees , " that encompassed , inanimate yet animating , the mind in its earth - walks . But the discovery prompt- ing me ...
Page xxvi
... nature setting like the sun , but irreversibly , is only being realized now , after the " tragic euphoria " of such anti - evangelical ideas as Nietzsche's Eternal Return , or Adorno's negative dialectics ( and similar critiques of the ...
... nature setting like the sun , but irreversibly , is only being realized now , after the " tragic euphoria " of such anti - evangelical ideas as Nietzsche's Eternal Return , or Adorno's negative dialectics ( and similar critiques of the ...
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