The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... tion , which he characteristically presents not simply as an abstract clash of critical positions , but as concretely woven into the fabric of American and academic cultural life . The more recent essays in this volume repeatedly ...
... tion , which he characteristically presents not simply as an abstract clash of critical positions , but as concretely woven into the fabric of American and academic cultural life . The more recent essays in this volume repeatedly ...
Page x
... tion . The style similarly works a borderland between ordinary language and ex- traordinary language . One cannot ... tion of secular to sacred : certainly , the secular takes its meaning from its opposi- tion to the sacred , so that ...
... tion . The style similarly works a borderland between ordinary language and ex- traordinary language . One cannot ... tion of secular to sacred : certainly , the secular takes its meaning from its opposi- tion to the sacred , so that ...
Page xii
... tion to an I - thou encounter solely one of obedience devoid of critique ? In Wordsworth , the elusive interplay between the sacred and the secular takes some exemplary concrete forms . We may focus , for example , as Hartman does , on ...
... tion to an I - thou encounter solely one of obedience devoid of critique ? In Wordsworth , the elusive interplay between the sacred and the secular takes some exemplary concrete forms . We may focus , for example , as Hartman does , on ...
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... tion of his poetry forces a recognition that Wordsworth's subjectivity is not con- fessional , but a mythic or more accurately epic creation . We can therefore recognize in Wordsworth something characteristic of culture since the ...
... tion of his poetry forces a recognition that Wordsworth's subjectivity is not con- fessional , but a mythic or more accurately epic creation . We can therefore recognize in Wordsworth something characteristic of culture since the ...
Page xiv
... tion by powerfully deploying a freely - invented discourse , Augustine puts the preacher , whose task is to find a mediating exposition between an audience closed within historical contingency and a canonically fixed text to whose ...
... tion by powerfully deploying a freely - invented discourse , Augustine puts the preacher , whose task is to find a mediating exposition between an audience closed within historical contingency and a canonically fixed text to whose ...
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