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... observer . The idiosyncrasies of the observer's perception , then , are not only determinative of what he sees but also self - reflecting and impossible to hide . In other words , the experience reflects less of the object than it could ...
... observer . The idiosyncrasies of the observer's perception , then , are not only determinative of what he sees but also self - reflecting and impossible to hide . In other words , the experience reflects less of the object than it could ...
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... observer watching this or of his watching as part of the activity of the experience . There is , therefore , no change shown within the observer that could parallel the change that occurs outside of him . In those two kinds of change ...
... observer watching this or of his watching as part of the activity of the experience . There is , therefore , no change shown within the observer that could parallel the change that occurs outside of him . In those two kinds of change ...
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... observer's sensitized awareness of the varied qualities of the external scene ( e.g. , " Stepping Westward " ) . When the observer is startled into awareness in the second stage , the qualities of the pattern he observes in the sky are ...
... observer's sensitized awareness of the varied qualities of the external scene ( e.g. , " Stepping Westward " ) . When the observer is startled into awareness in the second stage , the qualities of the pattern he observes in the sky are ...
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 |