| Wordsworth and the Motions of the Mind Contributor(s): Thomas, Gordon Kent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820410128 ISBN-13: 9780820410128 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1989 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| LCCN: 89002756 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: -Every great Poet is a Teacher; I wish to be considered as a Teacher or as nothing.- So wrote William Wordsworth in 1808. This book examines the poet's several methods and aims as a teacher in a variety of his poems; his trust in, and high expectations for, his reader's mental activity; and his part in a significant shift in artistic taste and awareness which still affects us all. It is a study of a great poet's lifelong effort, as he said, to -teach as Nature teaches- by setting the human mind in motion." |