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... called no more Jacob , but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men , and hast prevailed . And Jacob asked him , and said , Tell me , I pray thee , thy name . And he said , Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after ...
... called no more Jacob , but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men , and hast prevailed . And Jacob asked him , and said , Tell me , I pray thee , thy name . And he said , Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after ...
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... called such knowing " knowledge not purchased by the loss of power , " certainly in contrast to the kind bought by the Moralist char- acters in " A Poet's Epitaph " : to whose smooth - rubbed soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling ...
... called such knowing " knowledge not purchased by the loss of power , " certainly in contrast to the kind bought by the Moralist char- acters in " A Poet's Epitaph " : to whose smooth - rubbed soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling ...
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... called gigantic men ( the Nephilim ) . This ancient story inserted into Genesis by the writer ( s ) of the Yahwist strand had been an etiological myth designed to explain the existence of the race of aboriginal giants . But in the ...
... called gigantic men ( the Nephilim ) . This ancient story inserted into Genesis by the writer ( s ) of the Yahwist strand had been an etiological myth designed to explain the existence of the race of aboriginal giants . But in the ...
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 |