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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... eyes another stream Creeping with silent lapse to join the brook That murmured in the valley . ( 4.370-5 ) This ... eye of him who passes by . " In Lon- don , when road and river have snarled in streets , lanes , and courts , the open ...
... eyes another stream Creeping with silent lapse to join the brook That murmured in the valley . ( 4.370-5 ) This ... eye of him who passes by . " In Lon- don , when road and river have snarled in streets , lanes , and courts , the open ...
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... summit and its dumb cataracts " grieved / To have a soulless image on the eye / Which had usurped upon a living thought / That never more could be . " The following day that transcendent image gives way to its " 17 The Wordsworthian River.
... summit and its dumb cataracts " grieved / To have a soulless image on the eye / Which had usurped upon a living thought / That never more could be . " The following day that transcendent image gives way to its " 17 The Wordsworthian River.
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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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