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Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens' (Hardcover)
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Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language of the heavens' (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by
Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the
natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of
scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and
astronomical sources which Wordsworth and Coleridge used to express
their ideas about poetry, religion, literary criticism, and
philosophy, and establishes the central importance of analogy in
their creative thinking. Analogies prompted the poets' imaginings
in geometry and cartography, in nature (representations of the
moon) and natural history (studies of spider-webs, streams, and
dew), in calculus and conical refraction, and in the discovery of
infra-red and ultraviolet light. Although this is primarily a study
of the patterns which inspired their writing, the findings overturn
the prevalent critical consensus that Wordsworth and Coleridge did
not have the access, interest, or capacity to understand the latest
developments in nineteenth-century astronomy and mathematics, which
they did in fact possess. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'the language
of the heavens' reinstates many relationships which the poets had
with scientists and their sources. Most significantly, the book
illustrates that these sources are not simply another context or
historical lens through which to engage with Wordsworth's and
Coleridge's work but are instead a controlling device of the
symbolic imagination. Exploring the structures behind Wordsworth's
and Coleridge's poems and metaphysics stakes out a return to the
evidence of the Romantic imagination, not for its own sake, but in
order to reveal that their analogical configuration of the world
provided them with a scaffold for thinking, an intellectual orrery
which ordered artistic consciousness and which they never
abandoned.
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