Summary Notes on 'Beyond the Visible World: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads'
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Romanticism and Victorian Literature (EN5200)
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University Of St Andrews
Notes on R.A Fokes' 'Beyond the Visible World: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads'. This document is 1 page long and contains all citation references and page numbers.
Beyond the Visible World: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Lyrical Ballads
R. A Foakes
Romanticism
1999
5.1
10.3366/rom.1999.5.1.58.
pp. 58 – 69
58
- Notes that Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Tintern Abbey frame the volume,
yet they are so different
- ‘Wordsworth’s poem established itself for most readers as the centrepiece of
his ‘philosophy’ of nature, at least until the publication of The Prelude in 1850’
60
- Claims that in Tintern Abbey, ‘Wordsworth is constructing the scene much as
artists like Gilpin did, combining grandeur with a humanising pastoral
domesticity.’
62
- It was late in 1798 that WW ‘began to draft the Two-Part Prelude’
64
- ‘When Wordsworth seeks to ‘soar beyond the visible world’ (QWQ), he does
so by re-interpreting as an adult, and in the context of ‘other feelings’ (QWQ),
events that happened to him as a child’
65
- The difference [between WW and Coleridge] from Wordsworth is marked in
Coleridge’s need for the concept of a ‘redeeming God’ to offer something
beyond his sense of sin in a corrupt world.’
- ‘Wordsworth starts from the observing eye looking at the natural scene and
attaches feelings and meanings to the way he has ‘learned / To look on
nature’. Coleridge, so to speak, looks from the opposite direction, through the
eye to the soul within.’
66
- ‘If in Tintern Abbey Wordsworth describes his imaginative education through
nature, the Ancyent Marinere concerns the moral education of the wedding
guest…’
- ‘Wordsworth had no need of God, since his sense of a benign spiritual order
was based on an idealised innocent childhood. Coleridge needed God to
provide an idea of forgiveness and redemption, since he looked back on his
past with a consciousness of guilt…’
- ‘God is necessary to provide authority for the concepts of blessing and
praying but, at the same time, God is inadequate to explain the narrative.’
67
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