The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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... Touching Compulsion . Wordsworth and the Problem of Literary Representation , ” The Georgia Review XXI , No. 2 , Summer 1977. Chapter 3 : " Wordsworth , Inscriptions and Romantic Nature Poetry , " in From Sensibility to Romanticism ...
... Touching Compulsion . Wordsworth and the Problem of Literary Representation , ” The Georgia Review XXI , No. 2 , Summer 1977. Chapter 3 : " Wordsworth , Inscriptions and Romantic Nature Poetry , " in From Sensibility to Romanticism ...
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... 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 9 ...
... 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 9 ...
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... Touching Compulsion , " he cannot be said to take them either as simply thematic or formal categories . They are qualities of a peculiar kind which inhabit the poetry like the power of thought itself . Instead of calling what Hartman ...
... Touching Compulsion , " he cannot be said to take them either as simply thematic or formal categories . They are qualities of a peculiar kind which inhabit the poetry like the power of thought itself . Instead of calling what Hartman ...
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... some readings of a perhaps overread poem : A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She FOREWORD □ xvii.
... some readings of a perhaps overread poem : A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . No motion has she now , no force ; She FOREWORD □ xvii.
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... touch is " rigorously betrayed " when death fulfills an anticipation which even retrospectively remains more ... Touching Compulsion " finely names this same relation as one of " image to afterimage " rather than " illusion to the shock ...
... touch is " rigorously betrayed " when death fulfills an anticipation which even retrospectively remains more ... Touching Compulsion " finely names this same relation as one of " image to afterimage " rather than " illusion to the shock ...
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