Time and Mind in Wordsworth's PoetryWilliam Wordsworth was fascinated by the relationship of the creative mind to the created world, and by the effect of time on both of them. In this important new study, Jeffrey Baker explores the significant ways in which the theme of time is manifested in the imagery and diction of Wordsworth's major poetry. He discusses the poet's preoccupation with "clock" and "natural" time, as well as his escape from time through "deliberate holiday" and in the famous visionary "spots of time." Throughout his analysis, Baker concentrateson the texts which the poet himself approved for publication, asserting that the growing practice of citing poetically inferior versions for biographical or other extra poetic reasons misdirects a reader's attention. Only by reexamining the familiar poems as poems, rather than as philosophical or psychological statements, is it possible to appreciate how Wordsworth's changing concepts of the creator, the poet, and the ambiguities of time function as works of art. The volume includes a selected bibliography and an appendix describing the early Christian shrines alluded to in The Prelude. |
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... appears to be using ? Lord Byron recommends that we wait for the time when we shall all know , or at least lie still . For Wordsworth the pattern of belief was probably similar to that of Bishop Blougram's chess board , chequered ...
... appears to be nonsense of the sort that reveals itself as such . And if those elements in the poem which appear to imply associationism and the religion of nature constitute neither a statement of belief nor merely a species of ...
... appears paradoxical . He seems to be saying that God sustains the world by an infinite series of separate acts of ... appear to endure continuously , though in reality its moments are discontinuous.4 A motion picture film pro- vides a ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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