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Page 62
... mode , with good reasons for doing so . And in those reasons lies the essential difference between his " no bird " and Shelley's " bird thou never wert . " Behind Words- worth's choice in " To the Cuckoo " stands the impulse to recap ...
... mode , with good reasons for doing so . And in those reasons lies the essential difference between his " no bird " and Shelley's " bird thou never wert . " Behind Words- worth's choice in " To the Cuckoo " stands the impulse to recap ...
Page 63
... mode back , that there is no un- bridgeable gap between himself and what he was , and that there is indeed a unity of being to be discovered in his experience . He becomes , in other words , more fully himself for recapturing the mode ...
... mode back , that there is no un- bridgeable gap between himself and what he was , and that there is indeed a unity of being to be discovered in his experience . He becomes , in other words , more fully himself for recapturing the mode ...
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... mode is on human response to the human , universal man re- sponding through sympathy and identification to the pained world of other men . In its way it is an eighteenth - century sentimentalist parody of Aristotelian catharsis . Its ...
... mode is on human response to the human , universal man re- sponding through sympathy and identification to the pained world of other men . In its way it is an eighteenth - century sentimentalist parody of Aristotelian catharsis . Its ...
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 |