Wordsworth and the Zen Mind: The Poetry of Self-Emptying

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State University of New York Press, 1996年3月28日 - 268 頁
This book demonstrates that Zen thought and art provide both a generative and a formative context for understanding the spirituality of the English poet William Wordsworth (1770—1850). Combining methods of modern literary scholarship with the philosophical initiatives of the Kyoto School, the text crosses disciplines as well as cultures, offering a nonmonotheistic, nonpantheistic philosophical ground upon which to study what Wordsworth calls the "tranquil soul" and "the one Presence" that underlies "the great whole of life." Anticipating a variety of audiences, the discourse progresses from general, introductory level discussions of Zen philosophy and literature to the more technical philosophical idiom of the Kyoto School, employing intertextual readings of a variety of Wordsworthian and Zen documents to broaden and deepen the East-West dialogue as it has been unfolding since the pioneering work of D. T. Suzuki and Kitaro Nishida.

An important aspect of this study is its twofold purpose: to situate Wordsworth more centrally in the evolving global community of intercultural and interreligious communication and to demonstrate the unique flexibility and universality of Zen as a medium of spiritual growth and aesthetic understanding.

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The Purer Mind
1
WORDSWORTHIAN CAPACIOUSNESS AND ZEN EMPTINESS
19
WORDSWORTHS ENDLESS WAY AND THE TAO OF
53
Stepping Westward and The Solitary Reaper
59
The Alpine Crossing
71
The Blind Highland Boy
87
ZEN MOODS AND THE POETRY OF EMPTINESS
95
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131
The Spirit of Depth
149
The Lesson of the Conch
193
Forgetting the Mind
199
Notes
213
Bibliography
247
Index
259
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John G. Rudy is Professor of English at Indiana University Kokomo.

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