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...Marc Redfield Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Wordsworth’s Dream of Extinction marc redfield This short essay turns on the difference between, yet also the dif- fi culty of separating defi nitively, representations of extinction and apocalypse. Apocalypse of course means revelation...

... and 110 qui parle fall/winter 2011 vol.20, no.1 immediate lessons from reality itself? One of those self-suffi cient immortals, William Wordsworth, counseled a friend to leave off his dry studies and learn directly from bounteous nature. Sweet is the lore which...

..., and sounds Of undistinguishable motion, steps Almost as silent as the turf they trod. Wordsworth, Prelude, 1.329– 33 (1805) In the Oxford English Dictionary, the word shadow- box appears as a verb both transitive and intransitive: “to box (against) an imaginary 138 qui parle...

.... The old Bloomian theme of the “anxiety of influence” is often invoked to make sense of a text drafted in 1916 where Pessoa in effect rewrites one of Wordsworth’s poems, “The Solitary Reaper” (1805).8 But what such a reading risks fail- ing to account for is the radical difference between the kinds...

... Stevens' poetry profits from a consideration of Santayana's episte- mology. Put another way, the philosophical tradition that fostered the philosopher's theories, and the "romantic" tradition — articu- lated in England by Wordsworth, and .in America by Emerson...

... to “[encourage] and [en- large] the capabilities of the human mind,” as Wordsworth has it in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads. To be sure, commonalities between the three examples exist; as Culler summarizes, “[l]yric is not mimesis and can work, in very diff erent historical circumstances, to generate...

... is British romanticism, nationalism, utopian studies, education, and the in- tersection of critical pedagogy and game-based learning. His most recent publications include “The Colonial Subtext of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred and Eleven” (Wordsworth Circle, 2010...

...! ’tis a dull and endless strife, Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music; on my life, There’s more of wisdom in it. (Wordsworth, “The Tables Turned,” 1–12)22 172 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 “Or surely you’ll grow double”—auto-affection...

...); in literary studies, with Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (2017) and Nancy Yousef’s The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day (2022); in Black studies, with Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes...

... ecocultural localism of Wordsworth’s Grasmere and Thoreau’s Walden—at least as these authors have generally been read (PE, 116). Not that postcolonialism is the only source from which revi- sionist critique of the parochialism of predominant early stage eco- critical thinking about place has come...

... free, less imaginative, than the tirelessly familiar goals of profi t and power fueling the biotechnology corpo- rations that promise to set us free.”9 Looking to Wordsworth for the “far more radical change” needed to imagine a future with real pos- sibilities, precisely a future cultivated...

...”; as François points out, however, the idea of a “reserve” may itself be at the heart of the problem, since the hoarding that occurs when natural resources are considered as reserve, as capital, has generated precisely the precarious conditions Serres addresses. In her readings of Wordsworth...

... scholar Jonathan Bate’s Roman- tic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (London: Routledge, 1991), followed by his Song of the Earth (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000). 3. The idea for this special issue topic sprang to life somewhere in the course of Anne...

...” that speaks? There was Wordsworth’s refrain in the “Idiot Boy” that went “to-who, to-who,” sending up a flare of noncognition, sounding out the owl’s nocturnal relay and a collapse of human subjectivity. Ach! Sometimes I just wanted to howl, Allen Ginsberg style. At the time we were debating...

... of overpowering and incorporat- ing the counter-reading of an always verbal other" (67). Not only does each word dialogically inflecta previous word — as Wordsworth might distort Milton — but since this is the sole means of securing significance, the prior word has already anticipated this later...

.../n20/michael-wood/why-praise-astaire . Yeats W. B. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats . Edited by Finneran Richard J. . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1996 . Yousef Nancy . The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day . Oxford...

... cited as oh. 9. John Milton, Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merrit Y. Hughes (New York: Macmillan, 1957), emphasis added. 10. H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu,” in The Whisperer in Dark- ness (Ware UK: Wordsworth Editions, 2007), 34. 11. Quentin...

.... The dictionary goes on to catalog some twenty illustrations of the term from Wordsworth to Clement Greenberg, all re-enforcing its association with illusion REVIEW ESSAY 127 and deception. In art historical circles, however...

... Pade,Vol. 14, No. 2 Spring/Summer 2004 58 DENISE RILEY 1. Introduction: Solitude's talk If a flower-streaked inward eye could constitute Wordsworth's bliss of solitude, the inward voice has fared less glamorously. Its merest mention doesn't so much conjure up...

... this in the sense of a comment of Heidegger’s in Being and Time : “In ‘poetical’ discourse, the communication of the existential possibilities of one’s state-of-mind can become an aim in itself, and this amounts to a disclosing of existence.” 74 Such is the vocation of poetry at least since Wordsworth and Keats...