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Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts

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  • © 2001

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  1. Deeanne Westbrook
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 5-26

  3. The Word As Borderer

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 27-48

  4. The Word as Borderer

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 49-78

  5. How Awesome is this Place!

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 79-97

  6. Wordsworth’s Prodigal Son

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 99-121

  7. Wordsworth’s Song of Songs

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 123-143

  8. Wordsworthian Apocalyptics

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 145-175

  9. Wordsworthian Apocalyptics in Which Nothing Is Revealed

    • Deeanne Westbrook
    Pages 177-207

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 209-244
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The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, 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.

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'...a rich and rewarding study of Wordworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship...' - Laura Dabundo, The Wordsworth Circle

About the author

DEANE WESTBROOK is Professor of English at Portland State University where she teaches courses in British romanticism, poetry, criticism, mythology, biblical literature, baseball and myth, nineteenth-century studies, and classical Greek civilization. Her published works include articles on Genesis, northern European mythology, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, and a book, Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth.

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