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... Stepping Westward , " which has as a ground the observer's recognition and acceptance of his strangeness in a strange land , indicates the possibility of a brief but completed experience in which the outsider is recognized and accepted ...
... Stepping Westward , " which has as a ground the observer's recognition and acceptance of his strangeness in a strange land , indicates the possibility of a brief but completed experience in which the outsider is recognized and accepted ...
Page 65
... stepping westward ? " I cannot describe how affecting this simple expression was in that remote place , with the western sky in front , yet glowing with the departed sun . * The undercurrent of nervous exuberance that runs all through ...
... stepping westward ? " I cannot describe how affecting this simple expression was in that remote place , with the western sky in front , yet glowing with the departed sun . * The undercurrent of nervous exuberance that runs all through ...
Page 66
... stepping westward ? ' " The landscape has not really disappeared , though most of the con- tours and specifics have gone . There has been a further move toward starkness . Still , the note gives quite enough to place the travelers and ...
... stepping westward ? ' " The landscape has not really disappeared , though most of the con- tours and specifics have gone . There has been a further move toward starkness . Still , the note gives quite enough to place the travelers and ...
Contents
Knowledge of Encounter | 3 |
The Presence of Singularity | 28 |
The Farthest Reach of Sense | 49 |
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activity appears aspects assertion awareness becomes beginning bird bring called clear clearly close coherence Coleridge comes complete context continuity create dance defined difficult dimensions direction early earth effect elements encounter experience fact feel figure finally force further gives happened hold human idea imaginative important indicates intensity involved Keats kind knowledge leads learned least less limitations lines living looked lyric meaning meeting mind mode moment moments moral move movement nature never object observer offers passage pattern perhaps physical poem poet poetry possible Prelude presence Press probably qualities question reach relationship romantic scene seems seen sense separate shape share shows similar single situation Solitary song sound stands stanza Stepping strange things thought truth turn understanding universe usually vision voice wanted whole Wordsworth worth
References to this book
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement David Simpson No preview available - 1987 |