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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... called in " To My Sister " the " spirit of the season . " Wordsworth describes at some length his own attempt to adjust in this way in " Ode on Intimations of Immortality , " lines 22-24 , and the Pedlar suggests the same notion . " Tis ...
... called from his hut not just by storms , but by the warning of storms , and he may not wait for warmth before he takes food to his snowbound flock . And in spring , when the flock , with warmer weather , climbs Higher and higher , him ...
Jeffrey Baker. The class timetable , crammed full of what is significantly called " work , " is the emblem of all that is so offensively tidy - minded and doctrinaire in the education provided by a so - called good school , particularly ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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