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- catalog abstract "This book seeks to isolate the special factors that generate Wordsworth's greatness as a poet. Setting out from a dissatisfaction with the current trend towards New Historicism in Wordsworthian criticism, it endeavors to qualify the social and political bias of that criticism by a renewed assertion of the poetic primacy of the personal and qualitative. Taking Marjorie Levinson's reading of "Tintern Abbey" as the book's starting point, McFarland sets forth a different way of approaching the poem, and then identifies "intensity" as the secret of Wordsworth's power. The permutations of that quality are illustrated by careful examinations of "Ruth", of the "spots of time", and of "Home at Grasmere". There follow chapters on Wordsworth's desiccation, which is seen as precisely the absence of intensity; and on the aspiration of The Recluse. McFarland then discusses the special way in which Wordsworth assumed the prophetic stance, which was essential to his poetic vision; and the book concludes with a reading of The Borderers, not as a successful play but as a disposal chamber for the dark matter of Wordsworth's cosmos.".
- catalog contributor b3611898.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "1. The Clamour of Absence: Reading and Misreading in Wordsworthian Criticism -- 2. Wordsworth's Hedgerows: The Infrashape of the Longer Romantic Lyric -- 3. I cannot paint What then I was: The Psychological Structure of Wordsworthian Intensity -- 4. Wordsworth's Desiccation -- 5. Perfection Absolute: The Aspiration of The Recluse -- 6. The Prophetic Stance -- 7. The Play of Absence: The Borderers and the Winds of Culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This book seeks to isolate the special factors that generate Wordsworth's greatness as a poet. Setting out from a dissatisfaction with the current trend towards New Historicism in Wordsworthian criticism, it endeavors to qualify the social and political bias of that criticism by a renewed assertion of the poetic primacy of the personal and qualitative. Taking Marjorie Levinson's reading of "Tintern Abbey" as the book's starting point, McFarland sets forth a different way of approaching the poem, and then identifies "intensity" as the secret of Wordsworth's power. The permutations of that quality are illustrated by careful examinations of "Ruth", of the "spots of time", and of "Home at Grasmere". There follow chapters on Wordsworth's desiccation, which is seen as precisely the absence of intensity; and on the aspiration of The Recluse. McFarland then discusses the special way in which Wordsworth assumed the prophetic stance, which was essential to his poetic vision; and the book concludes with a reading of The Borderers, not as a successful play but as a disposal chamber for the dark matter of Wordsworth's cosmos.".
- catalog extent "xv, 176 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "William Wordsworth.".
- catalog identifier "019811253X".
- catalog isFormatOf "William Wordsworth.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press,".
- catalog relation "William Wordsworth.".
- catalog subject "821/.7 20".
- catalog subject "PR5888 .M39 1992".
- catalog subject "Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Clamour of Absence: Reading and Misreading in Wordsworthian Criticism -- 2. Wordsworth's Hedgerows: The Infrashape of the Longer Romantic Lyric -- 3. I cannot paint What then I was: The Psychological Structure of Wordsworthian Intensity -- 4. Wordsworth's Desiccation -- 5. Perfection Absolute: The Aspiration of The Recluse -- 6. The Prophetic Stance -- 7. The Play of Absence: The Borderers and the Winds of Culture.".
- catalog title "William Wordsworth : intensity and achievement / Thomas McFarland.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".