...Robin C. Dix Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 June 2002 25 WORDSWORTH AND LUCRETIUS: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CREECH S TRANSLATION I W ordsworth s intim ate knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, Lucretius are well attested, and have been exam ined by several recent...

...] helpless ( The O ld Cum berland Beggar 23 and 25), and no m atter how he may actually depend on the charitable deeds of others for his primitive survival, W ordsworth forcefully contends th at he is n o t ju s t a recipient o f assistance and should n o t be treated so. T hough consistent with his life...

... in regard to the study o f W ordsworth s habits o f com position in The Prelude.1The cozy alliance between Zachary L ead er s position and th at of Herschel Parker s, emblematized in the latter s new scholarship, may be accounted for by the very literalization of writing Derrida cautions us against. T he...

... sympathizer, while using quite different terms to Josiah Wedgwood.10 N ot until Ju n e 23, 1801, does Coleridge refer to M ackintosh as a hostile critic o f W ordsworth,11so it is likely that M ackintosh s (unspecified) criticisms were directed at the 1800 Lyrical Ballads. But Coleridge would have known som...

...Hollis Robbins Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 W e A re s e v e n and the F irst B ritish C e n s u s HOLLIS ROBBINS W illiam Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," first published in W ordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 volume, Lyrical Ballads, features...

.... The chapters on Byron, Blake, Shelley, and W ordsworth at­ tem pt to show how Romantic poetry springs from these poets m elancholic efforts to bring the dead to life, as it were, through acts of writing, and to raise to the surface of the poem the de­ sire (pleasure) and the labor an d loss (pain) that en g...

...Joanne C. Tong Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 102 English Language Notes close to Newby Bridge and the foot of W indermere, and within reach of the sea at Penny Bridge. U nderfield, the house to which W ordsworth s letter refers, which becam e vacant...

... s w o rth invoke a m a th e m a tic a l p h ilo so p h y gro u n d e d in re la tive id e n tity , d iv e rs ity , h is to ric ity , and a ffe c t: in sh o rt, in ethics. M iranda Burgess U niversity of British Columbia NOTES 1 William W ordsworth, "We Are Seven," in Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems...

... to the paths set out by others. However, rath er than showing W ordsworth s strange wild children in the merciless ravage of nutting, this poem pictures a golden world in which to fleet the time carelessly. 17T he description o f their interaction with nature on this jo u rn ey is decidedly in the vein...

..., Letters 1:289. 23M ason 58-59; W illiam W ordsworth, The Prose Works o f William Wordsworth, ed. W. T. B. Owen and lane W orthington Smyser, 3 vols (O xford: C larendon P, 1974) 1:122. 24J o h n Towill Rutt, Life and Correspondence ofJoseph Priestley, 2 vols (Lon­ don: R. H unter, 1831-2) 1:70...

... argues that although a poem such as W ordsworth's The Prelude or one of Milton's sonnets w ould seem to be an exam ple of a perfectly closed system of tropes and substitutions, the problem with a figurality that gives voice and body to that which is mute and dead is the "threat of a deeper log­ ical...

..., "Ode: Intim ations of Immortality," written in the depths o f wartim e, W ordsworth again resorts to num bers to touch on w hat he him self seems incapable of touching: This sweet May-morning, And the Children are culling On every side. In a thousand valleys far and wide. Fresh flow ers; w hile the sun...

... entalists now believe th at the Judeo-Capitalist-MarxistWest is devastating the Earth,7M ilton s plausible Earth-friendly reading of the Bible m ight help reorient the environmentally injurious Judeo-Christian juggernaut. It is n o t my objective to quibble with Jo p lin s reading of W ordsworth s N...

... Macmillan, 2009), 69. 3 Francis Jeffrey, "ART VIII. Thalaba the Destroyer," Edinburgh Review 1 (1802): 64; Stephen Gill, William W ordsworth: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 323. 4 Peter Murphy, "Impersonation and Authorship in Romantic Britain," ELH 59, no. 3 (1992): 630. 5 Richard Cronin...

... ordsworth. And in a sense, isn't a sandy beach a poem written by stones about themselves? And don't these "poem s" fail to include the essence o f the stones themselves? Aren't beaches oceanom orphic ways of "sensing" stones, just as W ordsworth poems about beaches are anthropocentric ways of sensing...

... of Chicago Press, 1985). For Michaels, Sm ithson's art, if not Smithson's statements about art, actually makes the same argument that Michaels does, about the uncontestable difference between art and non-art (Shape, 85-95). 5 All quotations from "Michael, a Pastoral Poem" are from William W ordsworth...

... miles south of Hawkshead. Bouth was 102 English Language Notes close to Newby Bridge and the foot of W indermere, and within reach of the sea at Penny Bridge. U nderfield, the house to which W ordsworth s letter refers, which becam e vacant with the death o f Benson s au n t in earlyjanuary 1809...

... atter of the el­ egy, in which Hopkins showed no interest whatsoever, b u t rath er to its ravishing language o f inspiration. Hopkins on Tennyson sounds very m uch like Pater on the h eat of W ordsworth s genius, which entering into the sub­ stance of his work, has crystallised a part, but only...

... but also its actual relationship to the people who pass through it? Another literary scholar, Hollis Robbins, in an exam ina­ tion of a poem by W ordsworth, asks: should a census taker, who is in some sense an arm o f the law, count a person as som ehow present if that person is technically dead but lives...

... poetry (from Blake, W ordsworth, Schlegel, Shelley, Solomos, Pushkin, and Hugo to W hitm an, Baudelaire, Dickinson, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Hopkins). W hile for me, to consider restoring Romantic poetry to its original venturesomeness, its precariousness, to help bring the fam iliar Eurocentric...