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... observer . The idiosyncrasies of the observer's perception , then , are not only determinative of what he sees but also self - reflecting and impossible to hide . In other words , the experience reflects less of the object than it could ...
... observer . The idiosyncrasies of the observer's perception , then , are not only determinative of what he sees but also self - reflecting and impossible to hide . In other words , the experience reflects less of the object than it could ...
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... observer watching this or of his watching as part of the activity of the experience . There is , therefore , no change shown within the observer that could parallel the change that occurs outside of him . In those two kinds of change ...
... observer watching this or of his watching as part of the activity of the experience . There is , therefore , no change shown within the observer that could parallel the change that occurs outside of him . In those two kinds of change ...
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... observer's sensitized awareness of the varied qualities of the external scene ( e.g. , " Stepping Westward " ) . When the observer is startled into awareness in the second stage , the qualities of the pattern he observes in the sky are ...
... observer's sensitized awareness of the varied qualities of the external scene ( e.g. , " Stepping Westward " ) . When the observer is startled into awareness in the second stage , the qualities of the pattern he observes in the sky are ...
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
References to this book
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement David Simpson No preview available - 1987 |