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The influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on her brother William Wordsworth.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Social Patterns and Poetic Strategy: A Study of William Wordsworth
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Studies in Two Nature Poets: William Wordsworth and T'ao Ch'ien
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Intellectual Being: The Dialectics of Hyle in Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and William Wordsworth
… (1126–1198) hyle functions dialectically in William Wordsworth (1770–1850)—as a dynamic, self-reflexive process that negates inherited forms of intellect and moves towards ontological transcendence. These writers project their hyle through poetics and politics, weaving intellect into verse …
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Imagination and the Philosophic Mind: Secular Consolation in the Poetry of William Wordsworth
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"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis
… My thesis begins with an examination of how William Wordsworth, who sort of falls into modernity, seeks to reoccupy the functions of religion in an increasingly secularized landscape. One consequence of the European Enlightenment is the disentangling and distancing that occurs in regards to …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… present absence which John MacKay identifies in Wordsworth’s inscriptional poetics, to perform deep readings of muddied manuscripts: Wordsworth’s pencil-written drafts for the 1805 Prelude; Douglas Oliver’s In the Cave of Suicession (1974), written on a typewriter in an alluvial tunnel in …
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The Death of Women in Wordsworth, Byron, and Poe
… through the experiences of male speakers in William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. These poets create bereaved male speakers who mourn the loss of a dead woman in order to present themselves as male poets who are capable of showing intense emotions. While all three …
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The Role of Geometry in Wordsworth's "Science of Feelings"
Counter to previous studies of William Wordsworth that have viewed him as dismissive of mathematics, logic, and the fundamental principles of moral feelings, or ignored the connections between these domains, this dissertation presents Wordsworth as imaginatively reprocessing the discipline of …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), John Keats (1795-1821), as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), among others and their critics are all considered for points of comparison to the modern lyrics. The reason for this …
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Classical stoicism and romantic passion : the golden mean in Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult".
… and the friend and admirer of the Romantic William Wordsworth, sought this balance throughout much of his life, and a close examination of much of his other poetry, prose, and letters bears out this search. However, just as his melancholia swayed the balance in his own life, his temperament …
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The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects
… journals, letters, and poems of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Henry David Thoreau, this dissertation frames the Romantic turn to nature not as a turn away from sociality and history but towards alternative forms of both. Intervening in a number of established strands of …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… such as Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron.
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Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet
… of creativity. Close reading of the poems of William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals the variant use of caesura, creative dissonance, as well as original organization and rhyme scheme to accomplish purely Romantic goals within the uniformity of the sonnet form.</p>
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“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew
<p>When the second edition of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s <em>Lyrical Ballads </em>was published in 1800, it contained nearly triple the number of poems as the first volume. Wordsworth’s “Song for the Wandering Jew” was one of these newly added poems. There are a number of …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
… evangelicals, the Religious Tract Society, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, and Gerard Manley Hopkins all used shipwrecks to imagine competing print-based spiritual communities. My work reveals that historical shipwrecks were not always experienced as secularizing …
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Geological bodies: Form and process in romantic poetry and geology
… Smith, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth I reveal the cultural entanglements among geology, poetry, and the human body and its history. Putting geological and poetic forms into conversation with one another, I also argue that the Romantic fragment was particularly suited …
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