Facing Language: Wordsworth's First Poetic Spirits
A Warminski - Diacritics, 1987 - JSTOR
A Warminski
Diacritics, 1987•JSTORIt would be naive to believe that we could ever face Wordsworth, a poet of sheer language,
outright. But it would be more naive still to think we can take shelter from what he knew by
means of the very evasions which this knowledge renders impossible.-Paul de Man,"
Wordsworth and the Victorians," The Rhetoric of Romanticism Among the institutionalized
ways of not facing Wordsworth perhaps none continues to stand upright quite as solidly and
fixedly-" as if sustained by its own spirit"[1805 Prelude, II, 280-81], as it were-as the …
outright. But it would be more naive still to think we can take shelter from what he knew by
means of the very evasions which this knowledge renders impossible.-Paul de Man,"
Wordsworth and the Victorians," The Rhetoric of Romanticism Among the institutionalized
ways of not facing Wordsworth perhaps none continues to stand upright quite as solidly and
fixedly-" as if sustained by its own spirit"[1805 Prelude, II, 280-81], as it were-as the …
It would be naive to believe that we could ever face Wordsworth, a poet of sheer language, outright. But it would be more naive still to think we can take shelter from what he knew by means of the very evasions which this knowledge renders impossible.-Paul de Man," Wordsworth and the Victorians," The Rhetoric of Romanticism
Among the institutionalized ways of not facing Wordsworth perhaps none continues to stand upright quite as solidly and fixedly-" as if sustained by its own spirit"[1805 Prelude, II, 280-81], as it were-as the interpretation of the relationship between man and Nature, Imagination and Nature, as a dialectic of immediacy and mediation, consciousness and self-consciousness. A most suggestive global statement of this interpretation is offered by Geoffrey Hartman in" Romanticism and'Anti-Self-Consciousness'" when he reminds us" that
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