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William Wordsworth: Intensity and Achievement (Hardcover)
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William Wordsworth: Intensity and Achievement (Hardcover)
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This book seeks to isolate the special factors that generate
Wordsworth's greatness as a poet. Setting out from a
dissatisfaction with the current trend towards New Historicism in
Wordsworthian criticism, it endeavours to qualify the social and
political bias of that criticism by a renewed assertion of the
poetic primacy of the personal and the qualitative. Taking Marjorie
Levinson's reading of `Tintern Abbey' as the book's starting point,
McFarland sets forth a different way of approaching the poem, and
then identifies `intensity' as the secret of Wordsworth's power.
The permutations of that quality are illustrated by careful
examinations of `Ruth', of the `spots of time', and of `Home at
Grasmere', which is revealed as containing the incandescent centre
of Wordsworth's values. There follow chapters on Wordsworth's
dessication, which is seen as precisely the absence of intensity;
and on the aspiration of The Recluse, which is seen to fail largely
because the personal intensity necessary to complete the venture
had been used up in the opening of `Home at Grasmere'. McFarland
then discusses the special way in which Wordsworth assumed the
prophetic stance which was essential to his poetic vision and was
adopted in the intense personal confidence that he possessed the
truth. The book concludes with a reading of The Borderers, not as a
successful play but as a disposal chamber for the dark matter of
Wordsworth's cosmos; the writing of the play is seen as necessary
to clear the way for the purified current of Wordsworthian
intensity to flow towards supreme poetic achievement.
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