Wordsworth Tintern Abbey

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"Wordsworth came to realize that Nature itself led him beyond Nature."

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Hartman (Via Naturaliter Negativa)

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".. the mind must pass through a stage where it experiences Imagination as a power separate from Nature, that the poet must come to think and feel by his own choice or from the structure of his own mind."

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Hartman (Via Naturaliter Negativa)

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"'Tintern Abbey' is more drama than documentary, more generalized lyric or ode than autobiography."

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Fosso (the shadow of death) because it was first published anonymously

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"For the poet, nature symbolizes both the lapse and the potential recovery of communal presence, transferred from abbey ruins to natural-sacral surroundings, with the poem's pantheism signifying not solitariness but collective worship and social cohesion."

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Fosso (the shadow of death)

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"Near the poem's end, the speaker's turn to his sister for consolation indeed appears to occur _because_ the consolation he desires is lacking in his revisitation of this site of former joys."

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Fosso (the shadow of death)

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Dorothy "is denied her own narrative in the context of Wordsworth's masculine narrative of loss and desired restoration."

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Judith Page's 'Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women' (Fosso's the shadow of death)

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"He reflected back on my own sense of nature."

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Hartman on Wordsworth (Kanav Gupta in intro)

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"Issues of the self are monitored by how it negotiates the ways of injustice and difference in the social world."

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Kanav Gupta in intro

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"Wordsworth maintains that, instead of telling and demonstrating what to do to become better, poetry, by sensitizing, purifying, and strengthening the feelings, directly makes us better."

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Kanav Gupta in intro

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"Every great Poet is a Teacher. I wish either to be considered as a Teacher, or as nothing."

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Wordsworth to George Beaumont (Kanav Gupta in intro)

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"It is the destiny of consciousness, or as the English Romantics would have said, of Imagination, to separate from nature, so that it can finally transcend not only nature but also its own lesser forms."

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Hartman (Romanticism and Anti-Self Consciousness)

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"Wordsworth’s poetry looks back in order to look forward the better."

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Hartman online essay (4. Tintern Abbey)

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"It follows that nature, for Wordsworth, is not an “object” but a presence and a power; a motion and a spirit; not something to be worshiped and consumed,but always a guide leading beyond itself."

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Hartman online essay (Via Naturaliter Negativa)