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... happened to the observer in those early stanzas is very close in kind to what happened after Godwin had gone and there seemed to be nothing there except himself . In the ode he insists that his isolation is only partial , though ...
... happened to the observer in those early stanzas is very close in kind to what happened after Godwin had gone and there seemed to be nothing there except himself . In the ode he insists that his isolation is only partial , though ...
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... happened , the thorn stands at an axial point , a center from which the energy of the experience appears to radiate . The first two stan- zas and the last one work closely with the object , the description reverberating in a somewhat ...
... happened , the thorn stands at an axial point , a center from which the energy of the experience appears to radiate . The first two stan- zas and the last one work closely with the object , the description reverberating in a somewhat ...
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... happened . The reaction , instinctive and stock , fills only a corner or two of this complex , grotesque event , satisfying them primarily by offering a means of coming to terms with what has happened . Yet it does manage to supply what ...
... happened . The reaction , instinctive and stock , fills only a corner or two of this complex , grotesque event , satisfying them primarily by offering a means of coming to terms with what has happened . Yet it does manage to supply what ...
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 |