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... experience a fragile but exquisite vision of the apocalypse . The elegiac situation becomes the occasion for ... experiences in himself , his human history fades : knowledge of mortality and guilt dissolves , and he prepares to risk his ...
... experience a fragile but exquisite vision of the apocalypse . The elegiac situation becomes the occasion for ... experiences in himself , his human history fades : knowledge of mortality and guilt dissolves , and he prepares to risk his ...
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... experience . The Prelude begins with the poet's need to harmonize these two areas of experience — the yearnings for contemplative solitude in nature and the cares and demands of the human world . Again the rhythm of recurring spaces is ...
... experience . The Prelude begins with the poet's need to harmonize these two areas of experience — the yearnings for contemplative solitude in nature and the cares and demands of the human world . Again the rhythm of recurring spaces is ...
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... experience of bliss , and does more than expose worldly suffering to the influence of nature . Wordsworth comes to see the city “ Open unto the fields ” ( WB , 7 ) , to see " the curling cloud / Of city smoke , by distance ruralised ...
... experience of bliss , and does more than expose worldly suffering to the influence of nature . Wordsworth comes to see the city “ Open unto the fields ” ( WB , 7 ) , to see " the curling cloud / Of city smoke , by distance ruralised ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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