ENG 3318 Lecture 5: Wordsworth continued
12 Feb 2017
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Long life allowed him to tinker with old poems. 3 versions 1799, 1805, 1850 for him, first impression wasn"t most authoritative. Lake school romantics (coleridge, wordsworth, southey) lake district was remote region emphasize outskirts of england. Really used by men. (294) looking at language of man. He emphasizes perceptions of nature; how the emphasis is on the subject in the act of perceiving as opposed to the object perceived. Much romantic writing and stories (297: what"s going on inside one"s mind, reputdiate over sensualized situations. Preface: poetry is the spontaneous exist in the mind. (303) Comes from erasmus darwin"s account zoonomia: insane idea of farmer caused his coldness. Lines 97-104: parataxis no clear cause between events. We"re supposed to get connection out of it: opens up idea of unrelated things, or the curse worked, either god or superstition told him this. At end: we"re told to think but we aren"t told what we"re supposed to think.
