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The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres.

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'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth Circle



Table of Contents
Introduction: 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

Wordsworths Biblical Ghosts

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Us
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/22/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780312240141, 978-0312240141
      ISBN10: 0312240147
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The 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 Contents
      Introduction: 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

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