Time and Mind in Wordsworth's PoetryWilliam Wordsworth was fascinated by the relationship of the creative mind to the created world, and by the effect of time on both of them. In this important new study, Jeffrey Baker explores the significant ways in which the theme of time is manifested in the imagery and diction of Wordsworth's major poetry. He discusses the poet's preoccupation with "clock" and "natural" time, as well as his escape from time through "deliberate holiday" and in the famous visionary "spots of time." Throughout his analysis, Baker concentrateson the texts which the poet himself approved for publication, asserting that the growing practice of citing poetically inferior versions for biographical or other extra poetic reasons misdirects a reader's attention. Only by reexamining the familiar poems as poems, rather than as philosophical or psychological statements, is it possible to appreciate how Wordsworth's changing concepts of the creator, the poet, and the ambiguities of time function as works of art. The volume includes a selected bibliography and an appendix describing the early Christian shrines alluded to in The Prelude. |
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... Abbey lines , all of the suggestions of Prospero's Windermere island will be deftly manipulated in the reader's memory , producing the sense of a remembered reality of which the present reality of the abbey nave seems an echo or a ...
... ABBEY ( The Prelude , 2 : 94-137 ) Founded in 1123 by Stephen , count of Boulogne and Mortain , later King Stephen of England , Furness Abbey was originally sited at Tulketh , near Preston , for monks of the Order of Savigny , and was ...
... abbey was , however , more vulnerable to attacks from the north . The abbot built Peel Castle as a defense against the Scots , who for a long time disputed the border . In spite of this , the abbey prospered and grew munificent . In the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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