The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page viii
... question of Hartman's method in reaching these conclusions was overlooked or assimilated to a familiar model. Despite a few references to continental thinkers, he appeared simply to have read Wordsworth more closely and carefully and ...
... question of Hartman's method in reaching these conclusions was overlooked or assimilated to a familiar model. Despite a few references to continental thinkers, he appeared simply to have read Wordsworth more closely and carefully and ...
Page xi
... question of what the experience and understanding of the sacred could possibly be, or more accurately what experience and understanding of the sacred could become possible only in a ' 'secularized' ' world. For Hartman, as for Walter ...
... question of what the experience and understanding of the sacred could possibly be, or more accurately what experience and understanding of the sacred could become possible only in a ' 'secularized' ' world. For Hartman, as for Walter ...
Page xii
... question here is the renewal of the symbol. For Freud, symbols are the mere instruments of purposive communication: if relation contains moral insights, why cloak reasonable claims in the fantastic imagery of outmoded superstition ...
... question here is the renewal of the symbol. For Freud, symbols are the mere instruments of purposive communication: if relation contains moral insights, why cloak reasonable claims in the fantastic imagery of outmoded superstition ...
Page xxvi
... question), and for the rhetoric of a few sublime episodes. Wordsworth's style, unfortified by the interest that a philosopher of the order of Heidegger, Sartre, or Derrida might bring, does not survive (in translation especially) the ...
... question), and for the rhetoric of a few sublime episodes. Wordsworth's style, unfortified by the interest that a philosopher of the order of Heidegger, Sartre, or Derrida might bring, does not survive (in translation especially) the ...
Page xxix
... question is, rather: Can we take poetry as seriously as Coleridge took Wordsworth, expending a similar quality of intelligence? English poems, one scholar has declared, have little or nothing to say. The character of that "nothing" is ...
... question is, rather: Can we take poetry as seriously as Coleridge took Wordsworth, expending a similar quality of intelligence? English poems, one scholar has declared, have little or nothing to say. The character of that "nothing" is ...
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