03952nam 2200793 a 450 991096285760332120251117073738.09786612352201978128235220912823522029780300145410030014541110.12987/9780300145410(CKB)2430000000010741(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171531(SSID)ssj0000313568(PQKBManifestationID)11254635(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313568(PQKBWorkID)10358833(PQKB)10031609(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158283(MiAaPQ)EBC3420485(DE-B1597)484784(OCoLC)586098241(DE-B1597)9780300145410(Au-PeEL)EBL3420485(CaPaEBR)ebr10347217(CaONFJC)MIL235220(OCoLC)923593288(Perlego)1089248(OCoLC)586098241(EXLCZ)99243000000001074120071109d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWordsworth and the poetry of what we are /Paul H. Fry1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20081 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 240 p.).) Yale studies in EnglishBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780300126488 0300126484 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Wordsworth's Originality -- 2. Wordsworth in the Rime -- 3. Jeffreyism, Byron's Wordsworth, and the Nonhuman in Nature -- 4. Green to the Very Door? The Natural Wordsworth -- 5. The Novelty of Wordsworth's Earliest Poems -- 6. Hoof After Hoof, Metric Time -- 7. The Poem to Coleridge -- 8. The Pastor's Wife and the Wanderer: Spousal Verse or the Mind's Excursive Power -- 9. Intimations Revisited: From the Crisis Lyrics to Wordsworth in 1817 -- Afterword: Just Having It There Before Us -- Notes -- IndexIn this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth's motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or-more recently-political repression, Fry redirects the poems and offers a strikingly revisionary reading.Fry argues that underlying the rhetoric of transcendence or the love of nature in Wordsworth's poetry is a more fundamental and original insight: the poet is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities or significance, but rather that it simply exists. He recognizes "our widest commonality" in the simple fact that "we are" in common with all other things (human and nonhuman) that are. Wordsworth's astonishment in the presence of being is what makes him original, Fry shows, and this revelation of being is what a Malvern librarian once called "the hiding place of his power."Yale studies in English.Philosophy, English19th centuryPhilosophical anthropology in literaturePhilosophy of nature in literaturePhilosophy in literatureNature in literaturePhilosophy, EnglishPhilosophical anthropology in literature.Philosophy of nature in literature.Philosophy in literature.Nature in literature.821/.7Fry Paul H456846MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962857603321Wordsworth and the poetry of what we are4356689UNINA