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Page 29
... single ( without con- text ) . What Wordsworth calls " absolute independent single- ness " affirms a state of isolation , complete aloneness . An insu- lated object , locked within the walls of its own being , has to be dislocated ...
... single ( without con- text ) . What Wordsworth calls " absolute independent single- ness " affirms a state of isolation , complete aloneness . An insu- lated object , locked within the walls of its own being , has to be dislocated ...
Page 39
... single , central thing seems often to stand out and be no- ticed . The frequency with which a single thing - one unique object standing alone becomes and remains the center of at- tention in the poems is remarkable . Wordsworth's use of ...
... single , central thing seems often to stand out and be no- ticed . The frequency with which a single thing - one unique object standing alone becomes and remains the center of at- tention in the poems is remarkable . Wordsworth's use of ...
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... single in these conditions means to be able to tap , as one wishes and with full awareness , elemental resources that have the power to give the deepest of insights into the nature of things . Even more , to be single means to have ...
... single in these conditions means to be able to tap , as one wishes and with full awareness , elemental resources that have the power to give the deepest of insights into the nature of things . Even more , to be single means to have ...
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 |