Romantic things : a tree, a rock, a cloud /
Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in R...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The gravity of things
- Cloud studies: the visible invisible
- Pastoral, after history: The apple orchard
- Touching things: "Nutting" and the standing of trees
- Composing sound: The deaf Dalesman, "The brothers," and epitaphic signs
- Distressful gift: talking to the dead
- The breath of life: Wordsworth and the gravity of thought
- "On the very brink of vacancy": things unbeseen
- Senseless rocks.