Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

by Deeanne Westbrook

Book Overview

The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349387193
• ISBN13: 9781349387199
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"