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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potkay, Adam, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850.
Wordsworth, William, > 1770-1850 > Ethics.
Music in literature.
Music and literature.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Morale dans la litterature.
Musique et litterature.
Musique dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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