Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical
Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical by Stuart James Allen
English | 30 July 2010 | ISBN: 0230248179 | 216 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | 30 July 2010 | ISBN: 0230248179 | 216 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Defining poetry as the 'overflow of powerful feelings' and 'emotion recollected in tranquillity', Wordsworth adopts two of the key claims of British Whig aesthetics: the centrality of affect to human being, and the need to regulate said affect. Wordsworth continues that poetry is feeling and that the metered pleasure of poetry makes it possible for the reader to field emotions otherwise difficult to bear.