The Unremarkable WordsworthU of Minnesota Press, 1987 - 247 pages |
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Page vii
... tradition of ballad and romance with roots in the great poetry pre - dating the Enlightenment , asserted itself against an instrumentalist reason , which in poetry took the form of a masquerade in the robes of conscious and merely ...
... tradition of ballad and romance with roots in the great poetry pre - dating the Enlightenment , asserted itself against an instrumentalist reason , which in poetry took the form of a masquerade in the robes of conscious and merely ...
Page xi
... traditional modes of 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 ...
... traditional modes of 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 ...
Page xii
... tradition . The self's founda- tion is abrupt , as in Christian " conversion , " but Wordsworth feels immensely the dangers of that abrupt and discontinuous self : its solipsism , its temptation to an arrogant belief that it is self ...
... tradition . The self's founda- tion is abrupt , as in Christian " conversion , " but Wordsworth feels immensely the dangers of that abrupt and discontinuous self : its solipsism , its temptation to an arrogant belief that it is self ...
Page xiii
... tradition . Scholars have stressed Words- worth's consciousness of an underlying popular tradition , alive in the country far from London , and absorbing into its essential orality even such written works as the Bible and Milton . But ...
... tradition . Scholars have stressed Words- worth's consciousness of an underlying popular tradition , alive in the country far from London , and absorbing into its essential orality even such written works as the Bible and Milton . But ...
Page xvii
... traditions it scrupulously evades . " Close reading " will seek in vain the precisely concrete linguistic struc- tures for whose analysis it is alone suited . What is needed is a wholly different approach , one capable of focusing on ...
... traditions it scrupulously evades . " Close reading " will seek in vain the precisely concrete linguistic struc- tures for whose analysis it is alone suited . What is needed is a wholly different approach , one capable of focusing on ...
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