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Wordsworth's Ethics /

"Why read Wordsworth's poetry - indeed, why read poetry at all? Beyond any pleasure it might give, can it make one a better or more flourishing person? These questions were never far from William Wordsworth's thoughts. He responded in rich and varied ways, in verse and in prose, in bo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Potkay, Adam, 1961-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Audition and attachment
  • Close encounters (i)
  • Close encounters (ii)
  • The ethics of things
  • Music vs. conscience
  • Captivation and liberty in poems on music
  • The moral sublime
  • Independence and interdependence
  • Surviving death
  • The poetics of life
  • Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.