Time and Mind in Wordsworth's PoetryWayne State University Press, 1980 - 212 Seiten William 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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... birds , being unknown , afford no time clues with their cries . Nature , who , when her habits and signals are known , seems to be fundamentally benevolent , now seems malignantly careful to perplex , and the Words- worthian heaven of ...
... birds , whatever stirs in copse and field , and laboring men so near to nature and its time that they scarcely know their indepen- dence . And in this harmony of man's time and nature's time , this union of grandeur and the commonplace ...
Jeffrey Baker. ceased not . ” These birds already bring with them suggestions of Ariel's music . But while they satisfy his need for metaphorical interpretation , they distract him from noticing that they are on the wrong island ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ordered and Disordered Time | 29 |
The Nature and Status of the Mind | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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