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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... feel we are alive ; Nor for his bounty to so many worlds- But for this cause , that I had seen him lay His beauty on ... feeling are all of a Ordered and Disordered Time 31.
... feel the emotion he expresses as he creates the poem , though he need not feel it ever before or after . " And E. D. Hirsch has pointed out that the word " enthusiasm " " does imply an optimistic and fervid outlook , but this has little ...
... feel with their nerves , but only to feel their effect on his . Michael , on the other hand , is an old man in whose pain the reader becomes involved ; therefore , however hale and strong he may be , the number of his years must be ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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