Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the SourceMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 de set. de 1989 - 232 páginas Rivermen examines the mythic context and psychological dimensions of the river and its source through an investigation of the recurring motifs associated with the source in classical and English literature -the heroic quest, the river journey, and the naiad or muse. Frederic Colwell focuses on the writings of those redoubtable rivermen, the English Romantic poets. He explores poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, showing that the image of the river is used in their work as a compelling archetype and a metaphor for the nature and process of the creative impulse. From the preface: "Unlike the rhythms of oceans, rivers have direction and a purposive flow. The river's will is always its own, not laid down by man, for whom the river passage demands a surrender to its will, its currents and eddies. To move with the flow is to course with time and change; to stand astride or view it from a height offers the prophetic stance by which we contemplate its entire passage, its past, present, and the brightening waters or rippling shoals ahead." |
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... beginning and an end ? Somewhere the sea waited in unchartered immensity and the source lay hidden in the highlands of its birth . The river draws us beyond the frontiers of our certainty to essay its wider and deeper mysteries where ...
... beginning and an end ? Somewhere the sea waited in unchartered immensity and the source lay hidden in the highlands of its birth . The river draws us beyond the frontiers of our certainty to essay its wider and deeper mysteries where ...
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... beginnings from which time or the river would bear us away . Because of its challenges , scaling the highlands of the interior and bucking adverse currents , it is the direction seldom taken , the solitary struggle whose obstacles are ...
... beginnings from which time or the river would bear us away . Because of its challenges , scaling the highlands of the interior and bucking adverse currents , it is the direction seldom taken , the solitary struggle whose obstacles are ...
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... beginnings , the creative process that calls it into being . The English Romantic poets brought an unprecedented curiosity and self - consciousness to their traf- ficking with the poetic process , and their poetry has long been recog ...
... beginnings , the creative process that calls it into being . The English Romantic poets brought an unprecedented curiosity and self - consciousness to their traf- ficking with the poetic process , and their poetry has long been recog ...
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... beginning of the earliest version of the poem . The circumstances of Wordsworth's actual childhood were adapted , though less than perfectly , to the fictional role enacted by a young hero or wayfarer embarking on the perennial quest.3 ...
... beginning of the earliest version of the poem . The circumstances of Wordsworth's actual childhood were adapted , though less than perfectly , to the fictional role enacted by a young hero or wayfarer embarking on the perennial quest.3 ...
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... beginning there is the infant , the river , and the nurse , the fos- tering male and female blending their voices , filling the child's sight and ears , his waking hours and his dreams with their reassuring undertone . The memory ...
... beginning there is the infant , the river , and the nurse , the fos- tering male and female blending their voices , filling the child's sight and ears , his waking hours and his dreams with their reassuring undertone . The memory ...
Conteúdo
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2 Sources | 37 |
3 The Guardian and the Spring | 46 |
Maid Woman Bower and Wilderness | 67 |
Her Literary and Social History | 101 |
Endymion | 115 |
Lamia Belles Dames and Deceiving Elves | 127 |
Heroic Landscape and the River Journey in Alastor | 145 |
9 The Witch of Atlas and the Mythic Geography of the Nile | 164 |
Epilogue | 186 |
Notes | 189 |
Index | 211 |
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Rivermen: A Romantic Iconography of the River and the Source Frederic Stewart Colwell Visualização parcial - 1989 |
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