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

Durrant, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0521077044 / ISBN 13: 9780521077040

Edité par Cambridge at the University Press, London, UK / New York, NY, 1970

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viii, 179 (5) pp. Prefatory Note, 9 titled chapters with extensive quotes and footnotes, Select Bibliography, index. Penciled name with very faint soil traces on ffep. & slight vertical raise on rear pastedown, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth and letters on exterior crisp and bright Fine, overall Near Fine. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 5.75" x 8.75". Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1/4 closed tear with slight wear to top edge spine dj, DJ Price clipped. In acetate protector. Size: Slim Octavo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Wordsworth and the Great System: A Study of Wordsworth's Poetic Universe
• Éditeur: Cambridge at the University Press, London, UK / New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521077044
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521077040
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • LITERARY CRITICISM

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Synopsis

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: on the contrary, his poetic vision is from one point of view a translation into terms of feeling and perception of a systematic view of the universe. Second, examination of individual poems reveals a poetic language in which that system is translated into images: star, rock, flower, tree, mountain, cloud, lake, sea. The poems are not sentimental anecdotes, they are 'acts of mind', which turn this world-view into feelings, expressed in a language not far from that of every day. This is inherently a tragic insight; for it sees the individual's consciousness as delight in the natural order, which inevitably brings the death which ends the consciousness. In his great period, from 1798 to 1805, Wordsworth held that vision steadily and whole.