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Book SynopsisThe Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.
Trade Review'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth Circle
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Poet in a Destitute Time The Word as Borderer: Incarnational Poetics: the Theory The Word as Borderer: Of Clothing and Body: the Practice How Awesome is This Place: Poems on the Naming of Places Wordsworth's Prodigal Son: 'Michael' as Parable and as Metaparable Wordsworth's Song of Songs: 'Nutting' as Mystical Allegory Wordsworthian Apocalyptics: Definitions and Biblical Intertexts Wordsworthian Apocalyptics in Which Nothing is Revealed
