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Page 49
... understanding of encounter but a block to it . The words which shape our understanding of our experience of things should offer the least possible hindrance to such under- standing . Words are mediating instruments and thus , to begin ...
... understanding of encounter but a block to it . The words which shape our understanding of our experience of things should offer the least possible hindrance to such under- standing . Words are mediating instruments and thus , to begin ...
Page 50
... understanding with his sense of truth in action and in presence worked to create patterns of imaginative com- prehension , patterns which are as much definitions of modes of perception as they are ways of thinking out what poems could ...
... understanding with his sense of truth in action and in presence worked to create patterns of imaginative com- prehension , patterns which are as much definitions of modes of perception as they are ways of thinking out what poems could ...
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... understanding of all that it can mean and do . Experience had taught Wordsworth how forms could be drunk quite deliberately as medicinal potions ready to be produced later to forestall or repair an expectable drought ; Wordsworth was ...
... understanding of all that it can mean and do . Experience had taught Wordsworth how forms could be drunk quite deliberately as medicinal potions ready to be produced later to forestall or repair an expectable drought ; Wordsworth was ...
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 |