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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... earth , the second of the elemental cornerstones of the created universe whose nature was flux and whose paradigm was the river . For Saint Francis water was the mirror of artless nature and a model for his own conduct : " Praised be my ...
... earth , the second of the elemental cornerstones of the created universe whose nature was flux and whose paradigm was the river . For Saint Francis water was the mirror of artless nature and a model for his own conduct : " Praised be my ...
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... earth on its banks . The child , however , is not yet prepared to essay the coursing Derwent in midstream ; his playground is its tributary millrace " severed from his stream , " scaled to his inti- mate world and yet furnishing the ...
... earth on its banks . The child , however , is not yet prepared to essay the coursing Derwent in midstream ; his playground is its tributary millrace " severed from his stream , " scaled to his inti- mate world and yet furnishing the ...
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... earth and sun meet , when in that place and that time of life to read was to devour with the same earthy hungering for life that plunged the child into Derwent's un- troubled living stream . For a whole day together , I have lain Down ...
... earth and sun meet , when in that place and that time of life to read was to devour with the same earthy hungering for life that plunged the child into Derwent's un- troubled living stream . For a whole day together , I have lain Down ...
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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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