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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... later career , The River Duddon and the Ecclesiastical Sonnets , evidence the dominance of the river , but serve to illustrate how and why this most commanding and resonant of figures does not invariably buoy its author or his poem ...
... later career , The River Duddon and the Ecclesiastical Sonnets , evidence the dominance of the river , but serve to illustrate how and why this most commanding and resonant of figures does not invariably buoy its author or his poem ...
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... later years , as the nine - year - old boy of Winander who approaches the threshold of awareness of his patrimony . in that silence , while he hung Listening , a gentle shock of mind surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of ...
... later years , as the nine - year - old boy of Winander who approaches the threshold of awareness of his patrimony . in that silence , while he hung Listening , a gentle shock of mind surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of ...
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... later italicized caverns and arbours . What fitful light there is is merely figurative , the leaven of " Companionships , Friendships , acquaintances . " The Cambridge light is unnatural , at times as seductively artificial as ...
... later italicized caverns and arbours . What fitful light there is is merely figurative , the leaven of " Companionships , Friendships , acquaintances . " The Cambridge light is unnatural , at times as seductively artificial as ...
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... later emended " flow " to " whirl " ( 1850 ) . It is book five with its subject matter " Books " that resolves the vexed argument of reading , or affirms reading as it might be or as it was con- ducted by the young Wordsworth . Behind ...
... later emended " flow " to " whirl " ( 1850 ) . It is book five with its subject matter " Books " that resolves the vexed argument of reading , or affirms reading as it might be or as it was con- ducted by the young Wordsworth . Behind ...
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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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