{"product_id":"wordsworths-metaphysical-verse-9781487592066","title":"Wordsworths Metaphysical Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson shows how Wordsworth, when writing about the nature and significance of geometrical thought in \u003cem\u003eThe Prelude\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Excursion\u003c\/em\u003e, designs his verse paragraphs in accordance with simple geometrical proportions which are thereby associated with the metaphysical value he attributes to geometry. Wordsworth finds geometrical forms to be hidden in the natural landscape and inherent in the structures of perception itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409174176087,"sku":"9781487592066","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487592066.jpg?v=1730505759","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wordsworths-metaphysical-verse-9781487592066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}