The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Fiction Edited by John Fekete The Structural Allegory : Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought For other books in the series , see p . 248 The Unremarkable Wordsworth Geoffrey H. Hartman Foreword by Donald G.
... Fiction Edited by John Fekete The Structural Allegory : Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought For other books in the series , see p . 248 The Unremarkable Wordsworth Geoffrey H. Hartman Foreword by Donald G.
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... thought to be innovative . According to the common view , in Wordsworth the synthetic , creative and sympathetic power of imagination , nourished on a popular tradition of ballad and romance with roots in the great poetry pre - dating ...
... thought to be innovative . According to the common view , in Wordsworth the synthetic , creative and sympathetic power of imagination , nourished on a popular tradition of ballad and romance with roots in the great poetry pre - dating ...
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... thought . It is questionable whether either the experts on Wordsworth or the ex- perts on theory are prepared to enter such a dialogue . Hartman's watchword has always been " beyond formalism . " A doctoral stu- dent at Yale in the ...
... thought . It is questionable whether either the experts on Wordsworth or the ex- perts on theory are prepared to enter such a dialogue . Hartman's watchword has always been " beyond formalism . " A doctoral stu- dent at Yale in the ...
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... thought , neither to repel nor submit to them , but to raise the voltage of reading by sustaining a polar tension . It is precisely from such confrontations that Hartman clarifies the autonomy of the poem and its language , not only as ...
... thought , neither to repel nor submit to them , but to raise the voltage of reading by sustaining a polar tension . It is precisely from such confrontations that Hartman clarifies the autonomy of the poem and its language , not only as ...
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... thought and representation , demand their own responsive expression . Did not Wordsworth himself imagine a poetry which would have fully assimilated science ? One could exemplify the opposition by Freud's Future of an Illusion and ...
... thought and representation , demand their own responsive expression . Did not Wordsworth himself imagine a poetry which would have fully assimilated science ? One could exemplify the opposition by Freud's Future of an Illusion and ...
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