Date of Award

7-1968

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

James Thale

Abstract

A survey of Wordsworthian criticism of the last forty years leaves one, I feel , with some questions regarding the artistic merits of Wordsworth's The Prelude. As a result, perhaps, of the unwieldly length and abstract subject of the poem ("the growth of a poet 's mind"), scholars have tended to center their discussions on a few key passages and to direct those discussions toward a clarification of Wordsworth's terms--such as Nature and Imagination. R. D. Havens' book, for example, which is certainly the most exhaustive study of The Prelude to date, concerns itself exclusively with Wordsworth's philosophy, and, though brilliantly informative, is more epistemological than literary.

Comments

An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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