Wordsworth Before Coleridge
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‘Written with extraordinary clarity and precision, argued with nuance and discrimination, this book establishes the qualifications Wordsworth had in 1796 to be equally reverenced, as Coleridge put it, "whether I regarded him as a poet, a philosopher, or a man", and to be asked, as he was, to adjudicate on matters of philosophical argument. Exploring a variety of constituents in his thinking, ranging from Descartes to Dugald Stewart, Cudworth and early periodical expositions of Kant, it contests the notion that Wordsworth was "a student of Coleridgean philosophy rather than philosophy per se". Crucially, it shows with exactitude that much (by no means all) of the philosophy of mind developed in The Pedlar and The Prelude originates in the 1794 revisions of An Evening Walk. This book deserves a wide and grateful audience for its ground-breaking argument, and if the profession is as open to illumination as it ought to be, it will have a revolutionary effect on the reception of Wordsworth's powers of thought.’ —Richard Gravil, Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and author of Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation
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Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 196
- ISBN
- 9780367667108
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
‘Written with extraordinary clarity and precision, argued with nuance and discrimination, this book establishes the qualifications Wordsworth had in 1796 to be equally reverenced, as Coleridge put it, "whether I regarded him as a poet, a philosopher, or a man", and to be asked, as he was, to adjudicate on matters of philosophical argument. Exploring a variety of constituents in his thinking, ranging from Descartes to Dugald Stewart, Cudworth and early periodical expositions of Kant, it contests the notion that Wordsworth was "a student of Coleridgean philosophy rather than philosophy per se". Crucially, it shows with exactitude that much (by no means all) of the philosophy of mind developed in The Pedlar and The Prelude originates in the 1794 revisions of An Evening Walk. This book deserves a wide and grateful audience for its ground-breaking argument, and if the profession is as open to illumination as it ought to be, it will have a revolutionary effect on the reception of Wordsworth's powers of thought.’ —Richard Gravil, Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and author of Wordsworth’s Bardic Vocation
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