Wordsworth's Philosophic SongCambridge University Press, 21 груд. 2006 р. - 267 стор. Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jarvis shows instead how essential both philosophy and the 'song' of poetry were to Wordsworth's achievement. Drawing on advanced work in continental philosophy and social theory to address the ideological attacks which have dominated much recent commentary, Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically, to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. This study rethinks the relation between poetry and society itself by analysing the tensions between thinking philosophically and writing poetry. |
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... produced such a wealth of response or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism . This indeed is the period that saw the emergence of those notions of ' literature ' and of literary history , especially national literary ...
... produced such a wealth of response or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism . This indeed is the period that saw the emergence of those notions of ' literature ' and of literary history , especially national literary ...
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... produces of itself the sense of an excess or overspill since , in each , seven four - foot lines culminate in a closing hexameter . All of these final closing hexameters , except this and the last line of the first stanza , have twelve ...
... produces of itself the sense of an excess or overspill since , in each , seven four - foot lines culminate in a closing hexameter . All of these final closing hexameters , except this and the last line of the first stanza , have twelve ...
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... produce a sense of a swell of feeling at the close of each stanza , especially in the polysyndetonic ( and most Spenserian and proto- Wordsworthian of all the hexameters here ) ' Despair and fell Disease and ghastly Poverty ' ; 22 but ...
... produce a sense of a swell of feeling at the close of each stanza , especially in the polysyndetonic ( and most Spenserian and proto- Wordsworthian of all the hexameters here ) ' Despair and fell Disease and ghastly Poverty ' ; 22 but ...
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... producing the effect of order , he transfers , in the transport of imagination , the law of Moral to physical Natures and , having contemplated , through the medium of that order , all modes of existence as subservient to one spirit ...
... producing the effect of order , he transfers , in the transport of imagination , the law of Moral to physical Natures and , having contemplated , through the medium of that order , all modes of existence as subservient to one spirit ...
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COUNTERSPIRITS | 33 |
From idolatry to ideology | 56 |
Materialism of the beautiful | 84 |
COMMON DAY | 109 |
Infinity | 133 |
Life | 153 |
Light | 195 |
imagination | 214 |
Notes | 224 |
Bibliography | 252 |
Index | 263 |
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Сторінка 206 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ; Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Сторінка 208 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Сторінка 7 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Сторінка 6 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Сторінка 208 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Сторінка 11 - My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Сторінка 63 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Сторінка 24 - Beauty — a living presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbor.
Сторінка 97 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our , dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
Сторінка 36 - As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth...