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Page 37
... situation of encounter and so big that they hold the situation within themselves . The most immediate truth about things lies in their existence as present things , and it is this special truth that things give absolutely to the situations ...
... situation of encounter and so big that they hold the situation within themselves . The most immediate truth about things lies in their existence as present things , and it is this special truth that things give absolutely to the situations ...
Page 67
... situation he is going through at that moment , he sees an image of man's journey through this world : and while my eye Was fixed upon the glowing Sky , The echo of the voice enwrought A human sweetness with the thought Of travelling ...
... situation he is going through at that moment , he sees an image of man's journey through this world : and while my eye Was fixed upon the glowing Sky , The echo of the voice enwrought A human sweetness with the thought Of travelling ...
Page 107
... situation ( this is what I saw ) . The mood of the passage called for only that much self - reference ; more would have put the observer intrusively into a situation where he really did not belong . Probably because of his preoccupation ...
... situation ( this is what I saw ) . The mood of the passage called for only that much self - reference ; more would have put the observer intrusively into a situation where he really did not belong . Probably because of his preoccupation ...
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 |