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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... poem by his wife on its posthumous publication in 1850. It was actually called , in William and Dorothy's letters , " the Poem on his own Life " or " the poem on the growth of my own mind . " 1 But it has a different , much more ...
... poems of the last two centuries . Partly this is a simple result of the sheer bulk of the work : few readers , even on a second or third reading , could really claim to hold the whole development of the poem clearly in memory . But the ...
... poem nearly confessional . " Louis Martz , in his valuable commentary on the poem , writes : In such a poem we are bound to hear throughout a personal voice . . . . That is why the poem never shows any extended effort to present a drama ...
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