Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult ChildFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995 - 269 pages Wordsworth and Feeling returns to Wordsworth's personal history in order to locate and contextualize some of the most remarkable poetry in the English language. In this study, G. Kim Blank details how this poetry evolves out of Wordsworth's radical subjectivity, but the most pressing feature of that subjectivity is the cluster of subjects - loss, guilt, suffering, endurance, death - which appears throughout much of his poetry up until 1802-4. |
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Preface | 9 |
The hiding places of my power | 15 |
The Adult Child | 41 |
Copyright | |
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