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Page 37
... situation of encounter and so big that they hold the situation within themselves . The most immediate truth about things lies in their existence as present things , and it is this special truth that things give absolutely to the situations ...
... situation of encounter and so big that they hold the situation within themselves . The most immediate truth about things lies in their existence as present things , and it is this special truth that things give absolutely to the situations ...
Page 67
... situation he is going through at that moment , he sees an image of man's journey through this world : and while my eye Was fixed upon the glowing Sky , The echo of the voice enwrought A human sweetness with the thought Of travelling ...
... situation he is going through at that moment , he sees an image of man's journey through this world : and while my eye Was fixed upon the glowing Sky , The echo of the voice enwrought A human sweetness with the thought Of travelling ...
Page 93
... situation in which it had originally held a crucial position . Such a role and status are exactly the opposite of those fulfilled by personifications , for personifications are abstractions brought into a concrete situation from without ...
... situation in which it had originally held a crucial position . Such a role and status are exactly the opposite of those fulfilled by personifications , for personifications are abstractions brought into a concrete situation from without ...
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 |