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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... dancing around it , which is a sight I dearly love.2 Dorothy seems almost as delighted by the tarn in the hollow of the hill , the bonfire and the young men dancing round it , as she is by the pictures in the clouds . She makes no ...
... dance Of things that pass away , a temperate show Of objects that endure ; and by this course Disposes her , when over - fondly set On throwing off incumbrances , to seek In man , and in the frame of social life , Whate'er there is ...
... dancing the memory which rises up against him is not of the hours of merriment , but of the hour of vision on the mountain road , presumably because he feels that he has not fully met all the obligations of that hour . The lightness and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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