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Wordsworth’s Empiricist Poetic and its Influence in the Twentieth Century This thesis has two connected aims. Firstly, it claims that it is meaningful to describe Wordsworth’s aesthetic, and his beliefs about the subject-object relationship, as substantially empiricist.
This thesis aims to examine the idea of nature in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth from the perspective of ecotheology. Its intention is not to identify their works with ecotheology, but it will be suggested how Coleridge’s search for the unity of the universe and.
This thesis revisits William Wordsworth’s practical and poetic engagement with education as epitomised in his claim that “Every Great poet is a Teacher: I wish either to be considered as a Teacher, or as nothing.” By situating this claim in the.
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH AND HARTLEY COLERIDGE: THE POETICS OF RELATIONSHIP Nicola Healey A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St Andrews 2009 Full metadata for this item is available in. conflicted literary relationship with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor.
The thesis finds its conclusion in the literary-historical effects that the after-presence of Wordsworth’s language engenders, which become an embodiment of legacy.
The thesis is a study of Wordsworth and the sonnet. It is structured around detailed assessments of each 'type' of sonnet that Wordsworth wrote, but my overarching goal is to demarcate a sonnet corpus and place it in a position of eminence, and in so doing, gesture towards a re-evaluation of the poet's career, by positing an alternative to the traditional Prelude-centric view of his oeuvre.
William Wordsworth and Coleridge are the two pioneers of the English Romantic Movement who changed the dry, sterile rationalism in English poetry in a new era by establishing the primacy and sovereignty of insight and imaginative vision in literature and in life.
William Wordsworth growing up spending most of this time alone and almost always around nature, typically writes of how we are affecting nature. However in the poem Composed upon Westminster Bridge we see a different side of Wordsworth were he describes a city so still and peaceful the beauty is hard to pass unnoticed.
This thesis sets out to be a significant work in both cognitive poetics and critical studies of Wordsworth. In the field of cognitive poetics, it is a timely response to redress the imbalance between a majority of macro-level analyses and a minority of close stylistic analyses, and to answer a growing call for returning the focus back to the textuality and texture of the text.
This thesis addresses an area which has been neglected within the predominantly secular emphasis of post nineteenth-century Romantic scholarship: the impact of religious revivalism on literary Romanticism. It argues that the affective culture of Methodist evangelism actually anticipated literary Romanticism in its commitment to a religion and a language 'of the heart'.
William Wordsworth introduces nature in his poetry as a sanctuary from the chaos of the modern world. It is a place of beauty, sublimity, peace, and spirituality, and it ultimately serves as a replacement for the divine. Wordsworth’s terminology is often spiritual and religious, sometimes in accordance with Christian doctrine and sometimes not.
William Wordsworth’s “To a Butterfly,” found in your Explorationsanthology on page 62, also focuses on a tiny part of nature—on a bug, to be exact. In this poem, the speaker not only observes a butterfly closely, but he also speaks to it. Speaking to something that cannot reply is a literary technique called apostrophe. By addressing.
Truth, Justification, and Literary Merit Charles Brandon Repp Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy University of Toronto 2013 Abstract This thesis develops and defends a new version of an old view known as literary cognitivism, which holds that the merit of a literary work as such sometimes depends on its cognitive merit.
