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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968496303321

Autore

Owen W. J. B (Warwick Jack Burgoyne)

Titolo

Understanding The prelude / / W.J.B. Owen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tirril [England], : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007

ISBN

1-282-04005-7

9786612040054

1-84760-001-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

821.7

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"With one exception, the essays in this volume have appeared hitherto only in the pages of The Wordsworth circle ..."--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Licence and Use -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Frontispiece -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Understanding The Prelude -- 2. The Sublime and the Beautiful in The Prelude -- 3. Literary Echoes in The Prelude -- 4. Wordsworth's Aesthetics of Landscape -- 5. A Shock of Mild Surprise -- 6. Two Wordsworthian Ambivalences -- 7. Wordsworth's Imaginations -- 8. 'The Charm More Superficial' -- 9. The Object, the Eye, and the Imagination -- 10. The Ascent of the Mind -- 11. 'The Poetry of Nature' -- 12. The Most Despotic of Our Senses -- 13. Such Structures as the Mind Builds -- 14. 'The Perfect Image of a Mighty Mind' -- 15. The Descent from Snowdon -- 16. A Sense of the Infinite -- 17. 'Prose'.

Sommario/riassunto

A new collection of the author's essays, written over a twenty-year period, on the meaning of The Prelude. The essays in this book meditate deeply on Wordsworth s own theory of literature, and probe into questions that few critics have bothered to ask, ye"