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The influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on her brother William Wordsworth.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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The Italianate Wordsworth
The Italianate Wordsworth is a study of William Wordsworth's enduring interest in Italian literature and culture -- an important aspect of his intellectual life and creativity to which no previous book has been devoted. Of all the first-generation Romantics, Wordsworth was the most influenced by …
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Arnold and Pater on Wordsworth
It would be most difficult to find two literary critics who are more opposed than the two great Victorian critics, Matthew Arnold and Walter Horatio Pater. Each represents an entirely different viewpoint in nineteenth century criticism. Arnold constantly seeks "disinterestedness," a position which …
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The Attitudes of Wordsworth Toward Religion
In reading Wordsworth’s poetry, one notices the frequency of words that have religious overtones: the church spire, chapel bells, the cross, the hermit, the nun in her cell. These images may edify or inspire the reader with hope or holy fear. But further observation reveals implications of another …
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The poetics of praeludere: Dante and Wordsworth
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The poets’ daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge
Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age. Living in the shadow of their fathers’ extraordinary fame brought Sara and Dora great …
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The Death of Women in Wordsworth, Byron, and Poe
… 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 poets …
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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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“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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Intellectual Being: The Dialectics of Hyle in Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and William Wordsworth
… 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 and vision …
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Imagination and the Philosophic Mind: Secular Consolation in the Poetry of William Wordsworth
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The idea of solitude: studies in a changing theme, from Pomfret to Wordsworth
… century and specifically in Coleridge and Wordsworth, from the overwhelming predominance of the retirement theme, to a concentration on the issues of isolation, springing out of but superseding those of retirement. The idea of solitude moves from a conoern with physical environment to an …
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