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Coleridge and the psychology of Romanticism : feeling and thought
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ISBN: 0333737458 Year: 2000 Publisher: Houndmills Macmillan Press

Coleridge and the uses of division
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ISBN: 0198183976 019167415X Year: 1999 Volume: *25 Publisher: Oxford New York Tokyo Oxford University Press


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Wordsworth and the poetry of what we are
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ISBN: 1282352202 9786612352201 0300145411 9780300145410 9780300126488 0300126484 9781282352209 6612352205 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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In 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."

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