Wordsworth and the Great System: A Study of Wordsworth's Poetic Universe - Brossura

Durrant, Geoffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521129834 ISBN 13: 9780521129831

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

Professor Durrant explores the alignment of Wordsworth's poems with the world-view of the scientist, he was supposedly hostile to.

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Descrizione del libro

Professor Durrant has two aims in his book, First, he shows that Wordsworth was less hostile to the world-view of the scientist than has been supposed. Second, examination of individual poems reveals a poetic language in which that system is translated into images.

Contenuti

Prefactory note; 1. Wordsworth and the scientific spirit; 2. Poetry and geometric truth; 3. The star, the flower, and the stone; 4. Order and relation; 5. The dimension of time; 6. 'Tintern Abbey' and 'the life of things'; 7. The 'Immortality' Ode; 8. Imagination and life - 'The Daffodils'; 9. The 'Lucy' poems; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521129834
• ISBN 13: 9780521129831
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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