Wordsworth's Biblical ghosts
By: Deeanne Westbrook.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Religion; Bible -- In literature; Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism
Description: "The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing languages, images, figures, and, importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical approaches - intertextuality, poetics, and metaphysics - Westbrook first analyzes Wordsworth's theory and practice as these reflect the New Testament doctrine of the Incarnation. Subsequent chapters consider Wordsworth's adaptation of biblical narrative forms - etymological tales, parables, and mystical allegories.

Closing chapters examine some extraordinary linguistic innovations in Wordsworth's revisions of biblical apocalypse, techniques that permit the poet to express the ineffable and to reveal Nothing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-238) and index.