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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Thursday Nov 11, 2010
Thursday Nov 11, 2010
Proto-Romanticism: Thomson compared to Wordsworth. The idea of landscape in Thomson; the adverting mind in Wordsworth, which you don't quite begin to find in Thomson, who wishes a Newtonian view from nowhere (hence the verses in memory of Newton). Collins is far more about the experience of the experience of being a poet. The Ode to Fear.
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