Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics: The Art and Psychology of Self-representation

achieved anxiety apostrophe appears attempt attention autobiographical awareness become beginning calls character claim Coleridge concern consciousness context continues course critical death defined discussion dramatic earlier early effect effort Elegiac emphasizes employs encounter event experience expression fact father fear feelings figure first function heart human idea ideal imagination important John language later Leech-gatherer letters lines loss major lyrics memory mind moment moments mood narrative Nature never notion object observed particularly passage past person phrase poem poet poet’s poetic poetry Prelude presence psychological questions reading recognition reference reflections relation relationship repetition representation represents Resolution and Independence Romantic says scene seems self-dramatizing self-representation self-transformation sense soul speaker speaking spirit stage stanza strategies structure subjectivity sublime suggest takes things thought Tintern Abbey transformation transitional turning understanding utterance verse voice Wordsworth writing