Decisions of an Alarmingly Personal Nature, or, What I Think about William Wordsworth

Autor/in	Abbott, Ruth
Titel	Decisions of an Alarmingly Personal Nature, or, What I Think about William Wordsworth
Quelle	In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 6 (2007) 1, S.114-122 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-0222
DOI	10.1177/1474022207072233
Schlagwörter	Poetry; Reader Response; Personal Narratives; English Literature; Nineteenth Century Literature; Poets + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lyrik; Poesie; Leserbrief; Erlebniserzählung; Englische literatur; Dichter
Abstract	This article begins by noting the tendency of certain academic practices to arrest thought, and attempts to circumvent that arrestation in the writer by reflecting on her adolescent response to the writings of William Wordsworth. It explores the possible implications of a youthful feeling that poetry is "true", tying this in with Wordsworth's own writing about poetry and truth, and with a particular passage from Wordsworth's "Home at Grasmere" which once prompted that youthful feeling. The personal and particular sources from which affective responses to poetry are often drawn are noted, and prosody is put forward as one of the most important among these sources, firstly for the present writer and then for Wordsworth himself. It finishes by contemplating the loss of that youthful response to poetry, and the implications of that loss for thinking. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10