It's good that a discussion is taking place here after so long, but
it's one we've had before. I remember at least twelve years ago trying
to persuade Jeff that his view of Wordsworth as the source of all
that's wrong with modern poetry just didn't make sense, but I got
nowhere. I wouldn't want to try it again.
PR
On 3 Jul 2015, at 19:13, Jeffrey Side wrote:
Gerard, but if you notice you will see that this extract belies what
he is saying in it. The text itself is more or less a description of
his thoughts regarding his advocacy of the imagination as a means to
inspire his verse. It is not in itself a demonstration or application
of the imagination in poetic form. It is a sort mimesis of his thought
processes, and so could be said to be empiricist in the same way as
mimesis of nature is.
Or to extend this slightly, he generally sees phenomena as a veil that
hides a superior reality normally imperceptible to us. So in this
sense, his descriptions of his thought processes about this “reality”
could also be said to mimetic—but of the “unseen”
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Jeffrey
I'm more than doubtful that 'It can be demonstrated that Wordsworth's
poetry relies too consistently upon a descriptive realist aesthetic
derived from empiricist beliefs about subject/object relationships.'
Imagination -- lifting up itself
Before the eye and progress of my song
Like an unfathered vapour, here that power,
In all the might of its endowments, came
Athwart me! I was lost as in a cloud,
halted without a struggle to break through;
And now, recovering, to my soul I say,
'I recognise thy glory.'
Prelude VI
Gerard
Gerard Greenway, editor
Angelaki journal of the theoretical humanities
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