Wordsworth's Classical Undersong: Education, Rhetoric and Poetic Truth

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
PART I: Wordsworth\'s Academic Training......Page 26
1 Early Years......Page 28
2 Wordsworth at Hawkshead: the Ethos of an English Grammar School......Page 35
3 The Mancunian Paradigm, James Peake and the Hawkshead of William Wordsworth......Page 50
4 Cambridge and \'knowledge … sincerely sought and prized / For its own sake\'......Page 77
PART II: Wordsworth and Horace: Ethos and Poetic Truth......Page 90
5 Horatian Poetics......Page 92
6 The Mind of the Poet......Page 112
7 The Poet\'s Truth......Page 135
PART III: Classical Undersong: \'lively images\', \'strong feelings\', \'purest Poesy\'......Page 150
8 Ethos and the Power of The Prelude......Page 152
9 The Poet\'s Calling......Page 175
10 Classical Undersong, Text, \'angels stopped upon the wing\'......Page 189
Appendix: Aristotle\'s Ethical Proof: a Sampling of its Use in Recent Criticism......Page 205
Notes......Page 212
Works Cited......Page 224
Index......Page 233