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ContentsAbstractiiDedicationiiiPreface and AcknowledgementsivContentsviiAbbreviationsxIntroductionI. Representing Wordsworth 1II. Romantic Invention versus Romantic Genius 5III. High Romantic Argument 9IV. Placing Language in History: Methodological Considerations 15Part OneChapter One: Introducing Wordsworth, and CiceroI. Wordsworth: Philosopher, Poet, and Politician 23II. Cicero: Eloquent Rhetor, Academic Philosopher, and Poet 32III. Paradoxes and Problems with Logic and Dialectic 38Chapter Two: Surprised by JoyI. Arnold’s Wordsworth 45II. Coleridge’s Early Wordsworth 52III. Wordsworth and Coleridge: Radical Difference 60Chapter Three: NatureI. On Nature 70II. A Sense Sublime 75III. Sparks of the Divinity 79IV. Synthesis or Blending 85V. Gladness and Sadness: The Exordium to The Prelude 89vii
Chapter Four: ImaginationI. Images and Imaginations 94II. Coleridgean Imaginations 99III. Pictures in the Mind 107Chapter Five: The PreludeI. Transcendental or Empirical Imagination 115II. Sublime Imaginations and Beautiful Fancies 118III. Pathos and Ethos 126Chapter Six: Romantic ImaginationsI. Empiricism and Transcendentalism in the Poetry 130Part TwoChapter Seven: Songs of Innocence and Experience:The French Books of The PreludeI. Wordsworth’s Sense of History 142II. Man is, by nature, a political animal’ 148III. The Prelude Book IX: Residence in France 152IV. The Prelude Book X, The French Revolution:True Knowledge Leads to Love 156Chapter Eight: Moral QuestionsI. Virtue, Equity, and Reason 162II. If Prophecy be Madness 166III. Political Justice 170IV. Yielding Up Moral Questions in Despair 175Chapter Nine: BooksI. Cato’s Letters and Beattie’s Minstrel 179II. Gill’s Life of Wordsworth 186III. Parallel Lives 190IV. Conyers Middleton’s Life of M Tullius Cicero 195viii
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feeling. 7 Both terms represent sta
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cannot rely on inspiration for such
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with it. 15 By claiming that Wordsw
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The Giant Wordsworth - God love him
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Not useless do I deemThese Shadowy
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seem that, for all the expectations
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Coleridge’s comments in the lette
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‘Imagination’ and ‘Fancy’ i
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leave his heart untouched, as does
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The opening stanzas describe the gl
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another letter to Sotheby he follow
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eading carefully in Plato, who also
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understood as “Proceeding from th
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Rather than speculating about Words
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more progressive and ‘enlightened
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detailed introduction to the Hellen
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The Stoic’s differing, broader, a
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virtù. 19 This Stoic belief in the
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Tintern Abbey’; the Two-Part Prel
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or Kantian terms, as a ‘synthesis
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mixture’ with ‘the great appear
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transformed into the divine ‘Imag
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the ‘gentle’, ‘mild-creative
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Another way of reading The Prelude
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natural world. This was a belief he
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passage, in The Prelude that follow
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Before leaving the letter it is als
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There is a change - and I am poor;Y
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inflammatory nature and he consider
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whatever logic’ he deemed ‘poss
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imagination in Biographia Literaria
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that while ‘Aristotle shared many
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the insufficiency of language - the
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This physiological difference also
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Chapter 5The PreludeImagination,…
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enthymemes, rather than syllogisms,
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Which meek and silent rested at my
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the existence of a ‘higher’ mor
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Nature and Human Life’ all take p
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Having made this turn to human natu
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continually qualifying his descript
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shower are necessary for growth, bo
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As has already been noted, when lat
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Wordsworth’s text at face value,
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philosophy, with his age. He was re
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Presiding Ideas in Wordsworth’s P
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Coleridge’s mind. 21 The Mirror a
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in Coleridge’s method. Nor, as he
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grammar school pupils moral values,
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pantheistic beliefs, and makes refe
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which concludes with Wordsworth def
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described in a paragraph that shows
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freedom of speech. In Cicero’s ti
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time, he is unable to unpack suffic
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When Beaupuy points out a historica
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Wordsworth arrived at the city ‘i
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draughts. As a consequence he could
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‘Lines Left upon a seat in a Yew-
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The actual situation at the Nationa
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would have been willing to ‘have
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In his more manic enthusiastic stat
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It seems that at this time he serio
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should principally wish our attenti
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the political society appropriate t
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een strongly influenced by his read
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of such a task, he then reveals tha
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Chapter 9BooksI. ‘Cato’s Letter
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supporting, made up for the lack of
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stuck in Wordsworth’s mind and we
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Edwin in actually applying his ‘k
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volumes of poetry, reflected the Ol
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thinking and provided him with a gr
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Cicero in 45 B.C.E., in order to pl
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and confusion. As he carried out hi
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virtue-ethics; by the early Stoics
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morality, of more immediate use and
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e able to examine all aspects of a
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Cicero’s concept of ‘natural la
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(I 24-5). 6 Nature lavishes a wealt
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sided with John Thelwall, who wrote
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an imagination that had grown too s
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Just as it is acknowledged that the
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Set this thought before you: that l
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altogether in a faint. 24 Cicero as
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- a poet by virtue of divine electi
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‘alliance’ between extreme, ‘
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It comprehends some bringer of that
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Theseus links the ‘brains’ of t
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The Greek word here is καταλη
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in empirical concepts. These ‘ima
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which deals with the ‘Peroration
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In concluding his remarks on ethos
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At Goslar Wordsworth had identified
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Studies by Kurt Heinzelman and Bruc
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Athwart imagination’s vivid eye;O
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His muse to better themes (Summer 5
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Racedown and Alfoxden, Wordsworth w
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elsewhere represented as freely flo
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There is creation in the eyeNor les
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Chapter 12‘The Ruined Cottage’I
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disturbed and ‘in despair’ of t
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description of the Pedlar’s child
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product of passive inspiration, not
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degenerated, his behaviour started
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The question is the same one raised
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He suggests that possession of this
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Coleridge in Biographia Literaria w
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In contrast to his earlier visit, w
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‘philosophical’ passage that ma
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An active power to fasten imagesUpo
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own mind. Young men do not act with
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And he resolved to quit his native
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as ‘madness’ if he can also dem
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encounter is carefully staged as th
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Chapter 13ConclusionsI. The Additio
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modelled on Quintilian’s ideal or
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what is described as an unusual ins
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diction’ hides direct, manly, goo
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ing with them their own pre-establi
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philosophical and poetic advisor, h
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VI. Coda: ‘Beauty, a living Prese
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A simple produce of the common day.
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ather than his scepticism or sophis
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Appendix BExtracts from Virgil, Geo
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BibliographyAarslef, Hans. ‘Words
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Booth, Wayne C. Critical Understand
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Aids to R
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______ ‘Wordsworth and the Englis
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Harper, George Maclean. William Wor
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_______ ‘James Beattie’s Litera
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Mahoney, John L. Wordsworth and the
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Perelman Chaïm The New Rhetoric an
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Rousseau, J.J. The Reveries of a So
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Tompkins J. M. S. ‘In Yonder Grav
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Wordsworth, Jonathan, Michael C. Ja
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