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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, W. J. B. (Warwick Jack Burgoyne)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Wordsworth, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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"

Contents:

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'.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Wordsworth circle.

ISBN:

1-282-04005-7

9786612040054

1-84760-001-8

OCLC:

747820351