The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth's PreludeJohns Hopkins University Press, 1974-09-01 - 226 psl. Originally published in 1974. This book concerns the archetypal quality of Wordsworth's The Prelude, specifically the ways in which it develops and defines concepts of language, time, and narrative that influenced writers who came after Wordsworth. Frank D. McConnell sees the philosopher and theologian St. Augustine as the most suggestive analogue for the Wordsworthian quest for lost time and for the redemptive power of memory. McConnell maps similarities and dissimilarities between Wordsworth's Prelude and Augustine's Confessions. Each chapter of the book centers on an aspect of Wordsworth's confessional procedure in writing the poem. Chapter 1 ascribes peculiarities in the mode of address to The Prelude's definitive auditor, Coleridge, as a felt presence that shapes the overall form of the poem. Chapter 2 discusses the confessional—and Wordsworthian—view of the human career, contrasting the holistic and organic ideal of man's development with a more ancient and allegorical, or daemonic, view against which the confessional vision struggles. Chapter 3 carries the argument to the more fundamental level of the senses of sight and hearing. And chapter 4 deals with language itself, the irreducible counters of Wordsworth's vision and the highly specialized confessional language of "Edenic words." The general direction of the author's reading is a narrowing of focus from the most general to the most specific features of the confessional act. |
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... daemonic principle of wrath , a semi- detached agent which possesses the Achaean hero . The daemonic , then , describes a state of mind in which one sees his best or worst actions as , in some way , not part of himself but thrust upon ...
... daemonic in a Protestant theological context , also helps demonstrate its permanence in human thought and imagination . For the daemonic and its con- trary , the unitary , are more than simply alternative modes of vision which carry on ...
... daemonic peak . It is an image nearly Dantesque in its precision , for in the situation Wordsworth describes , the increase in stature of the peak would follow not only the linear movement of the boat away from the horizon but also the ...
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