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Page 36
... truth all at once and all equally powerfully . For Wordsworth there is a kind of shape and meaning in the experience ... truth : of these , If future years mature me for the task , Will I record the praises , making verse Deal boldly ...
... truth all at once and all equally powerfully . For Wordsworth there is a kind of shape and meaning in the experience ... truth : of these , If future years mature me for the task , Will I record the praises , making verse Deal boldly ...
Page 37
... truth of present being and also the truth that the substantial presence of the object lends to the situation by making the situ- ation cohere around it . But the truths of things are not the same as the truths outside of them . The ...
... truth of present being and also the truth that the substantial presence of the object lends to the situation by making the situ- ation cohere around it . But the truths of things are not the same as the truths outside of them . The ...
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... truth there was to be found . We remember that the truth about the object grows out of its situation dur- ing the process of encounter . Truth for Wordsworth was therefore multiple , often oppressively so . This is not to say that it is ...
... truth there was to be found . We remember that the truth about the object grows out of its situation dur- ing the process of encounter . Truth for Wordsworth was therefore multiple , often oppressively so . This is not to say that it is ...
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 |