Additional readings on Romantic "image"
- Richard Foster, The New Romantics: A Reappraisal of the New Criticism (1962; rpt. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1973)
- Frank Kermode, Romantic Image (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957)
- C. Day Lewis, The Poet Image (1947; rpt. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1984)
- Herbert Lindenberger, On Wordsworth's "Prelude" (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1963) [see esp. discussion of Wordsworth's "images of interaction"]
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A rough schema of Wordsworth's poetics c. The Ruined Cottage
a narrative in transition to lyric |
Margaret's tale (cf., Female Vagrant's tale in Salisbury Plain)
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a revisionary landscape that alters the picturesque and locodescriptive: |
Nature |
Time |
a psychology that repudiates "associationism": |
Imagination |
Memory |
a philosophy |
"One Life" |
"Self" |
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Suggested readings on "The Ruined Cottage"
- Cleanth Brooks, "Wordsworth and Human Suffering: Notes On Two Early Poems," in From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, ed. Frederick W. Hilles and Harold Bloom (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965)
- Jonathan Wordsworth, The Music of Humanity: A Critical Study of Wordsworth's "Ruined Cottage" (London: Thomas Nelson, 1969)
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