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Page 30
... things , of whatever degree of consciousness . Macpherson's work , then , is a fraud , and not for the most obvious reasons . Wordsworth , characteristically , denies the authenticity of Ossian because of the way that things are seen ...
... things , of whatever degree of consciousness . Macpherson's work , then , is a fraud , and not for the most obvious reasons . Wordsworth , characteristically , denies the authenticity of Ossian because of the way that things are seen ...
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... things into words . What he does can be only a lie about the process and about what objects are like . And Wordsworth was compulsive about the truth of what he saw ( within and without himself ) and of what it was like for him to see ...
... things into words . What he does can be only a lie about the process and about what objects are like . And Wordsworth was compulsive about the truth of what he saw ( within and without himself ) and of what it was like for him to see ...
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... things are either dead or at play or standing in their stately beauty , where nature , ulti- mately and horribly , appears to be thoroughly without concern for man . Wordsworth , with his usual impressive skill in these matters , first ...
... things are either dead or at play or standing in their stately beauty , where nature , ulti- mately and horribly , appears to be thoroughly without concern for man . Wordsworth , with his usual impressive skill in these matters , first ...
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 |