ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: My Heart Leaps Up, Tribal Art, Petrarch
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Lecture 7: romanticism (1790-1850, william wordsworth (1770-1850) In principle wordsworth sympathetic to indigenous who we see the history in their own landscape and were worried scientific modernity is going to crush it and erase it: emotional history of the self is important. If wordsworth wrote this whole thing in couple minutes while standing on that bridge, it is impressive but also doubtful he did. Nonetheless significant that he wants us to think he wrote it in the moment. It is about a specific moment of perception; this whole poem is about seeing the city of. London from perspective of westminster bridge which is right in the center of london: moment of perception, whole poem is expansion of one moment. I saw this, it was beautiful, it moved me. Different from milton as the i(cid:373)ages are(cid:374)"t drawn from classic literature, from bible, and other literary works.
