Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth century
the role of the imagination in literature has been a matter for
debate. Is it an essential resource, as maintained by some Romantic
writers, or a treacherous purveyor of illusions? In this lecture
Professor Beer suggests that one result of this uncertainty has
been to set up a division (which continues to pervade literary
enterprises) between imaginative flights on the one hand and the
'weighing of words' on the other. His examples are drawn from a
wide range of writers, including Johnson and Dickens, Hopkins and
Woolf. The lecture concludes with an examination of two poems by
Wordsworth, who is seen as having faced these problems in an
unusually intricate and subtle manner.
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