Title: Wordsworth's Biblical ghosts
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.
Subjects: Bible, English Religious poetry, History, History and criticism, In literature, Religion, Religion and literature, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Bible, in literature, Religious poetry, history and criticism
Places: England
People: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Time periods: 19th century