Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Wordsworth’s “After-Sojourn”: Revision and Unself-Rivalry in the Later Poetry....Pages 11-32
The Secondary Wordsworth’s First of Homes: Home at Grasmere ....Pages 33-47
Wordsworth’s Cloud of Texture....Pages 49-61
Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth’s Book of Questions....Pages 63-75
Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in The Ruined Cottage ....Pages 77-91
Scarcity by Gift: Horizons of the “Lucy” Poems....Pages 93-105
Scarcely on the Way: The Starkness of Things in Sacral Space....Pages 107-117
Wordsworth’s Maculate Exception: Achieving the “Spots of Time”....Pages 119-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Imagining Naming Shaping: Stanza VI of “Dejection: An Ode”....Pages 135-147
“Fears in Solitude”: Reading (from) the Dell....Pages 149-156
“I mourn to thee”: Dedication and Insufficiency in “Constancy to an Ideal Object”....Pages 157-165
“Frost at Midnight”: Some Coleridgean Intertwinings....Pages 167-182
Coleridge Conversing: Between Soliloquy and Invocation....Pages 183-191
Repetition, Difference, and Liturgical Participation in Coleridge’s “The Ancient Mariner”....Pages 193-204
Voice, Judgment, and the Innocence of Self in Coleridge....Pages 205-214
Brushwood by Inflection, 2....Pages 215-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-267