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Page 160
... dance , celebrating the nuptials of earth and sky , the image of dancing clearly draws its full import only when he sees earth and sky as joined together to form a single context . If the dance seems tailor - made for Wordsworth's ...
... dance , celebrating the nuptials of earth and sky , the image of dancing clearly draws its full import only when he sees earth and sky as joined together to form a single context . If the dance seems tailor - made for Wordsworth's ...
Page 161
... dance no perfect measure is Yet oftentimes their music makes them kiss.12 ( Here , surely , the dance is a love dance if not yet one of mar- riage . ) Yet Wordsworth needed to go no further than Paradise Lost , always close to the ...
... dance no perfect measure is Yet oftentimes their music makes them kiss.12 ( Here , surely , the dance is a love dance if not yet one of mar- riage . ) Yet Wordsworth needed to go no further than Paradise Lost , always close to the ...
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... dance and mar- riage , however much they have their individual jobs to do , attain their fullest meaning only when seen in the light of each other . The idea of the marriage dance is perhaps not so fanciful after all . Each trope gives ...
... dance and mar- riage , however much they have their individual jobs to do , attain their fullest meaning only when seen in the light of each other . The idea of the marriage dance is perhaps not so fanciful after all . Each trope gives ...
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 |