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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
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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.