The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page xii
... spirit proceeded from revelation, the present starts with Bildung, ' ' which aims to bring the ' 'inner liberation and deliverance of man, his true rebirth." The contrast is between an abrupt and decisive foundational experience ...
... spirit proceeded from revelation, the present starts with Bildung, ' ' which aims to bring the ' 'inner liberation and deliverance of man, his true rebirth." The contrast is between an abrupt and decisive foundational experience ...
Page xiv
... contingency and a canonically fixed text to whose letter and spirit he is bound to remain faithful (consequently dissolving the criteria which relate hierarchies of subject matter and style). In place of the xiv II FOREWORD.
... contingency and a canonically fixed text to whose letter and spirit he is bound to remain faithful (consequently dissolving the criteria which relate hierarchies of subject matter and style). In place of the xiv II FOREWORD.
Page xv
... spirit when he returns home even before that event. In Britain, he finds himself out of sympathy with his government and even with his fellow citizens—severed like an "alien" from the prayers for British victory offered up in rural ...
... spirit when he returns home even before that event. In Britain, he finds himself out of sympathy with his government and even with his fellow citizens—severed like an "alien" from the prayers for British victory offered up in rural ...
Page xvi
... spirit chiefly lurks Among those passages of life in which We have had deepest feeling that the mind Is lord and master, and that outward sense Is but the obedient servant of her will. Such moments, worthy of all gratitude, Are ...
... spirit chiefly lurks Among those passages of life in which We have had deepest feeling that the mind Is lord and master, and that outward sense Is but the obedient servant of her will. Such moments, worthy of all gratitude, Are ...
Page xvii
... spirit of Enlightenment critique of all organized religion. Indeed, "Nature," it seems to me, is invoked precisely to relocate the "religious" outside any sphere of "culture. ” What Wordsworth lives through is that experience of the ...
... spirit of Enlightenment critique of all organized religion. Indeed, "Nature," it seems to me, is invoked precisely to relocate the "religious" outside any sphere of "culture. ” What Wordsworth lives through is that experience 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