Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Author | : Paul H. Fry |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780300145410 |
ISBN-13 | : 0300145411 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Download or read book Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are written by Paul H. Fry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underlying all this is a more fundamental insight - Wordsworth is most astonished not that the world he experiences has any particular qualities, but rather that it simply exists.