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Page 84
... beginning of " A Night - Piece , " where the unpleasing though not offensive dull- ness in the sky is contrasted to what could happen at those obviously more desirable moments when the light breaks through . Further , in this poem and ...
... beginning of " A Night - Piece , " where the unpleasing though not offensive dull- ness in the sky is contrasted to what could happen at those obviously more desirable moments when the light breaks through . Further , in this poem and ...
Page 85
... beginning seems just on the verge of dis- appearing or being transformed into something else , a movement seen occasionally in Keats and also in Wordsworth , who could never have written " Ode to a Nightingale " but would certainly ...
... beginning seems just on the verge of dis- appearing or being transformed into something else , a movement seen occasionally in Keats and also in Wordsworth , who could never have written " Ode to a Nightingale " but would certainly ...
Page 107
... beginning section is not entirely impersonal : two judi- cious references to the observer's own participation , however peripheral , emphasize his personal knowledge of these details : I saw an aged Beggar in my walk ; Him from my ...
... beginning section is not entirely impersonal : two judi- cious references to the observer's own participation , however peripheral , emphasize his personal knowledge of these details : I saw an aged Beggar in my walk ; Him from my ...
Contents
The Presence of Singularity | 28 |
The Farthest Reach of Sense | 49 |
A Synecdoche for Wholeness | 73 |
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activity appears assertion awareness Basil Willey bird cloud coherence Coleridge comes complete consciousness context continuum cosmos cuckoo dance dimensions disembodied voice Dorothy Wordsworth earth elements encounter Ernest de Selincourt Excursion experience feel girl happened Henry Crabb Robinson hierarchy hierogamy Hölderlin human imagery imaginative immediacy impulse intensity John Keats Keats Keats's kind knowledge landscape limitations lyric on daffodils Lyrical Ballads meaning meeting ment mode move movement nature ness never Night-Piece object observer observer's offers Old Cumberland Beggar passage pattern perception physical poet poetry possible Prelude presence qualities relationship Resolution and Independence romantic Samuel Taylor Coleridge scene seems seen sense sentimental morality shape share Shelley shows single situation solipsism Solitary Reaper song soul stands stanza Stepping Westward strange stranger synecdoche things Tintern Abbey tion truth universe vision whole William Wordsworth Words Wordsworth Wordsworthian worth
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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement David Simpson No preview available - 1987 |