Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts
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Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

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Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

About this book

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories. Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal nothing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Poet in a Destitute Time
  7. Chapter 2 The Word as Borderer Incarnational Poetics -The Theory
  8. Chapter 3 The Word as Borderer Of Clothing and Incarnation—The Practice
  9. Chapter 4 How Awesome Is This Place! Wordsworth's Poems on the Naming of Places
  10. Chapter 5 Wordsworth's Prodigal Son Michael as Parable and as metaparable
  11. Chapter 6 Wordsworth's Song of Songs 'Nutting" as Mystical Allegory
  12. Chapter 7 Wordsworthian Apocalyptics Definitions and Biblical Intertexts
  13. Chapter 8 Wordsworthian Apocalyptics in Which Nothing Is Revealed
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index