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The time of unrememberable being Wordsworth and the sublime, 1787-1805

A study that views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numinous is translocated from heaven to earth - grand Nature - and from there further on into Man's inner Nature.
Print Book, English, 1998
Museum Tusculanum Press University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1998
200 p. 24 cm
9788772894430, 8772894431
1087902781
Foreword - the metaphysical implosion. Part 1 Paradise and paradigm 1787-1794: that other eye; the sublime track. Part 2 The nature of the sublime: the ugly and the beautifu; the book of nature; nature as landscape; the nature of the sublime. Part 3 The inner light 1798-1800: the inner expansion; an ebbing and a flowing mind; introspection is retrospection; the mind of man; there is creation in the eye; the time of unrememberable being; the beatings of the hearth; the sublime pattern of experience; the starting; place of being fair; throwback; two consciousnesses; that false secondary power; an obscure sense of possible sublimity; an auxiliar light; the uncertain heaven. Part 4 The light that never was 1800-1805: poetry's "Perpetuum Moblie"; the poetics of the sublime; internal brightness; the child of the father is a man; the genealogical inversion; from phenomenal to spiritual nature; the revision of "The Prelude"; the moving soul; a correspondent mild creatine breeze; breathings for incommunable powers; acknowledging dependency sublime; imagination restored; the perfect image of a mighty mind; of female softness shall this life be full; the light that never was.