Wordsworth's Art of AllusionPennsylvania State University Press, 1988 - Всего страниц: 262 Wordsworth's poetry incorporated the English poetic tradition to a greater degree and in more ways than that of any poet before him. This book explores the range and uses of quotations, echoes, and allusions drawn from some 1,300 intertextual instances that the author has recognized in his work. The principal interest of the echoes examined here lies in the revaluation of the poet and the theoretical issues his varied use of them suggests. Through echoing, Wordsworth embodies and explicates his assertions of continuity in human development, his vision of interchange between the mind and nature, and his intention to revitalize English poetry by at once mediating and revolutionizing the tradition. Further, through echoic devices he accomplishes his three main poetic goals--the normative one of bringing poetry back in touch with oral discourse, the Miltonic one of giving it a prophetic role, and the peculiarly Wordsworthian one of substantiating his ideas about the relation between subject and object. This book will be of value to Wordsworth scholars for the actual borrowings it records and for the enriched understanding of the poet its original approach offers. Further, it possesses a truly wide-based cultural interest, not only in its general theory of echoing as a process central to discourse but specifically in such matters as the turn to native tradition vs. classic tradition, the difference between weak emulation and fierce wrestling with precursors, and, above all, the extraordinary classification of allusions. The categories are helpful fare beyond the Wordsworth subject matter that gave rise to their perception. Important also is the major theoretical challenge posed by this work to the intensely focused influence study of Harold Bloom. |
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... verse , and natural sound , as " according lutes / Grace the soft warbles of her honied voice " ( 251-52 ) . The marriage of divine music , verse , and natural sound is cele- brated more profoundly by Collins . In many ways , Collins ...
... verse , seeking in autumnal meditation to assure himself that despite feeling his poetic invention has worn thin , especially in response to nature , he can still find themes to produce “ A genuine birth / Of Poesy " ( 25 , 55-56 ) . In ...
... verse and prose works borrowed from him between 1650 and 1840 ; “ only Milton , Pope , and Thomson were more powerful influences on eighteenth- century topographical verse ” ( 36 ) . 14. Wordsworth's fear of discontinuities seems ...
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Using the Tradition | 19 |
Echo as Genesis and Mediation | 42 |
Wordsworth and the Renaissance Heritage | 83 |
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