Wordsworth Before Coleridge : the Growth of the Poet's Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797 /

"Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge. Beginning...

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Main Author: Bruhn, Mark J., 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Wordsworth Before Coleridge
  • The Growth of the Poet's Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797
  • An Independent Mind? : Wordsworth at Cambridge, 1787-1791. Wordsworth's Independent Mind
  • Mathesis and Madness
  • The Cartesian Method in Wordsworth's Madness
  • Wordsworth's First Philosophy
  • Growing out of Pope : An Essay on Man in Wordsworth's Philosophical Poetry, 1785-1794. Wordsworth's Education in Philosophical Poetry
  • Remodeling the Philosophical Mind
  • Reconciling Head and Heart, Man and Nature
  • Wordsworth's First Philosophy and the Feeling Mind of Man
  • Beyond Godwin : Elements in Wordsworth's Politics, 1794. The Problem with the Godwin Solution
  • The Cases For and Against Godwin
  • The Competing Case for Stewart
  • Toward The Prelude : Elements in An Evening Walk, 1794. Stewart's Poetics of Interiority
  • Moral Feelings in Common Forms
  • Poesis and Madness
  • The Finishing of Wordsworth's Philosophical Education, 1795-1797. The Unifying Mind in Nature and the Fitness of Human Life
  • Action From Within and From Without
  • Cudworth in Any Case
  • Wordsworth's Apprehensive Habitude
  • Conclusion. The Growth of the Poet's Philosophical Mind, 1785-1797
  • Wordsworth Before Coleridge.