... allowing the primal to be, as something in motion and exis­ tence, but also as the reference of a ruin or artifact, a concatenation of forces, unnamable in their indeterminacy, human or geological, natural or supernatural, erupting from the past. Within another well-known Wordsworth poem, an even more...

...Miranda Burgess Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 HOW WORDSWORTH TELLS: N u m e r a t io n , Va l u a t io n , a n d D w e l l i n g in W e a r e S e v e n M ir a n d a B u r g ess In tro d u ctio n Like m any before it, th is essay e xp lo re s th e pro b le m o...

... to one reference in O Brian s journals where he wrote Com plete idleness on my part. I finished Mansfield Park 8cwith it allJA s works (99-100). This was one o f many times that O Brian reread A usten s novels. WORDSWORTH PREPARES TO MOVE FROM GRASMERE (1810): AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER A hitherto...

...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...

...David Chandler Copyright © 2003 Regents of the University of Colorado 2003 62 English Language Notes DICKENS ON WORDSWORTH: NICHOLAS NICKLEBY AND THE COPYRIGHT QUESTION Dickens had little love for Wordsworth, Forster noted, rather tersely, in his Life.' There is no obvious reason to doubt...

... with the death o f Benson s au n t in earlyjanuary 1809 (as a note on the m anuscript makes clear), was in the same village. For A rthur Benson and his b ro th er Richard at Hawkshead G ram m ar School, see T. W. Thom pson, Wordsworth s Hawkshead, ed. Robert Woof (London: O xford UP, 1970) 368. For the Benson...

... (forthcoming). THE BEE-POLITICS IN WORDSWORTH S VERNAL ODE For, so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king, and officers of sorts; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; Others...

.... THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION: [THE DISCHARGED SOLDIER] AND THE OLD CUMBERLAND BEGGAR One of the very first poems which Wordsworth wrote after the crisis of his m ind and spirit in th e m id 1790s is ab o u t an unexpected encounter with a discharged soldier which took place a long time ago in his childhood...

... is recuperative. From h er post-Lacanian perspective, the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats is neither com plicit with an econom y fo u n d ed on the work o f m ourning n o r ig norant o f th at econom y s operations and questionable compensations (19). Rather, the poetry...

... aspect of the presentation of the 1800 volumes, and the famous Preface is an appeal for careful and sympathetic read­ ing. Wordsworth there spoke of writers gratifying certain known habits of association in their readers; it seems reasonable to ask, as he m ust have done, what associations readers...

..., but because of the form of the letter itself. Its minimalism and its elegiac tone cry out to the reader, much as the inscription on a tombstone. Even though Byron resists Wordsworth, and even though what Geoffrey Hartman characterizes as Byron s criti­ cism of Wordsworth s lack of urbanity15is apparent...

... writing of The Prelude stretched over m ore than forty years during which Wordsworth deferred the outcom e of his project through his incessant revisions;2 Wordsworth, in fact, never hoped to com plete his project during his lifetime.3 Pub­ D ecem ber 2001 29 lished posthumously, The Prelude (so nam ed...

... wrote Com plete idleness on my part. I finished Mansfield Park 8cwith it allJA s works (99-100). This was one o f many times that O Brian reread A usten s novels. WORDSWORTH PREPARES TO MOVE FROM GRASMERE (1810): AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER A hitherto unrecorded letter to Arthur Benson of Abbots Redding...

... ination o f the com m unitarian lyric an d the poet- 92 English Language Notes ics of intervention (which begin in the works of Wordsworth and Spence in the 1790s and persists into the work of Linton and Morris near the en d o f the century) distinguishesjanow itz s book. Janowitz does not limit h er...

... + 624. he. $45.00. 0-19-818425-9. W arkentin, Germaine, ed. Tudor and Stuart Texts: The Queen s Majesty s Passage and Related Documents. Toronto: Centre for Reformation an d Renaissance Studies, 2004. Pp. 158. pb. 0-7727-2024-X. Wordsworth, William. T he Cornell Wordsworth: Sonnet Series and Itinerary...

... Proceeding from a posi­ tion known as deep ecology (which places the Earth n o t hum an beings at the center o f an environm ental ethic),Joplin approvingly finds Wordsworth moving towards a potentially eco­ logical w orld as he rejects a hum an-centered, o r anthropocentric, approach to the Earth...

...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...

...Peter Knox-Shaw Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 March 2002 41 16H. W. Garrod, Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays, 2nd ed. (Oxford: C larendon P, 1927) 152. 17The Works ofJohnDryden, ed. Edw ard Niles H ooker, H. T. Sw edenberg, et al. 20 vols (Berkeley: U o f C...

... Romantic literature and art, and literary theory. He has published three books: Wordsworth: The Sense o f History (Stanford University Press, 1989), The Laws o f Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture o f Information (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and Local Transcendence: Essays on Post­ modern...

... the qualities of guidance and spiritual mentorship that Wordsworth assigns to Nature in Tintern Abbey (1798). What is strange, how­ ever, is that the poet uses sweetness to describe both Simplic­ ity and Fancy. On the other hand, it may be argued that Collins uses Fancy as a metonymical representation...