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... soul moves ef- fortlessly into what seems to be a state of purity : Gently did my soul Put off her veil , and , self - transmuted , stood Naked , as in the presence of her God . While on I walked , a comfort seemed to touch A heart that ...
... soul moves ef- fortlessly into what seems to be a state of purity : Gently did my soul Put off her veil , and , self - transmuted , stood Naked , as in the presence of her God . While on I walked , a comfort seemed to touch A heart that ...
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... soul demanded a continual accretion 2 The similarity of " A Night - Piece " and the passage on the ascent has been noted by James Kissane in " A Night Piece ' : Wordsworth's Emblem of the Mind , " MLN , 71 ( 1956 ) , 183-186 . 3 For ...
... soul demanded a continual accretion 2 The similarity of " A Night - Piece " and the passage on the ascent has been noted by James Kissane in " A Night Piece ' : Wordsworth's Emblem of the Mind , " MLN , 71 ( 1956 ) , 183-186 . 3 For ...
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... soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling , great or small ; A reasoning , self - sufficing thing , An intellectual All - in - all ! One of the meanings of power for Wordsworth was the ca- pacity ( quite literally ) for imaginative ...
... soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling , great or small ; A reasoning , self - sufficing thing , An intellectual All - in - all ! One of the meanings of power for Wordsworth was the ca- pacity ( quite literally ) for imaginative ...
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 |