Wordsworth and the Figurings of the Real

by David Simpson

Book Overview

Perhaps the most powerful feature of the Romantic imagination is its ability to dissolve existing form and order and create it anew. The Romantic investigation of the functions of the imagination also leads to important insights concerning its problems and dangers. Because it separates the person experiencing it from others around him, the imagination introduces ways of seeing which cannot be assumed to be simply communicable or easily shared, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333306317
• ISBN13: 9780333306314
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"