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Wordsworth in his major lyrics : the art and psychology of self-representation

This text explores the identity, role and subjectivity of the speaker in Wordsworth's finest and best-known longer lyrics - ""Tintern Abbey"", ""Resolution and Independence"", ""Ode: Intimations of Immortality"", and ""Elegaic Stanzas"". It provides a psychoanalytic model for defining his lyrical ""I"".
eBook, English, ©2001
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 180 pages)
9780826262660, 9780826213297, 082626266X, 0826213294
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The lyrical "I" as a self-dramatization: Wordsworth's transitional self
The dramatics of self-representation in "Tintern Abbey"
In the mind's eye/"I": "resolution and independence"
The "I" of the ode: public performance, subjective transformation
"Elegiac stanzas": the poet in his letters and the "I" of the poem
Conclusion: the prelude as a major lyric