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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... finally concentrated in the phrase " objects that endure . " Wordsworth can hardly mean by it the abstract notion " objects of thought , " since he is using it in antithesis to sense objects that do not endure - cloud formations and ...
... Finally , he places The Prelude in the " Time Book " tradition ; in other words , he sees it as an essentially modern work which uses the exploration of time as a means of examining subjective experiences . The poem , says Lin ...
... finally judge themselves . But the poem as a whole suggests that their self - condemnation was as wrong as their condemnation of the fisherman . The opening lines make clear that the mood of the ramblers is undoubtedly also " the spirit ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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