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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... notion that one image seen or remembered will suggest other images with which it has been grouped in the past ... notions are derived from the conversations of a gifted friend rather than from systematic study . Accord- ing to Rader ...
... notion that the function of art is to freeze some moment of the past , " so that we may have it for ever , and thus share in that quality of eternity that does not move but simply is .... The impulse itself represents a disease of the ...
... notions of grace and redemption . He may appear to have done so in his later work , particularly where he is writing ... notion as in Blackstone's , but not more . Christianity is a learned religion , inevitably so since it is dogmatic ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Copyright | |
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