A Mind For Ever Voyaging: Wordsworth at Work Portraying Newton and ScienceWordsworth depicted Newton, as Roubiliac may well have done in his statue of him, as voyaging, in ecstasy, through God's sensorium. In the Prelude passage from which the title A Mind For Ever Voyaging is derived, and in various others portraying Newton and science, Wordsworth seems to have written for two audiences, the general public and a much smaller, private audience, while seeking to elevate the minds of both to God. Like Pope before him, Wordsworth achieved "What oft was wrought, but ne'er so well exprest." |
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Contents
What Oft Was Thought | 3 |
A Prevailing Practice | 59 |
Linking Together | 81 |
Strange Seas | 98 |
A Kindred Spirit | 118 |
But Neer So Well Exprest | 145 |
The Myth of Wordsworths Reading But Little | 183 |
Wordsworths Attitude Towards Cambridge Undergraduates | 191 |
The Availability of Sources for the Hymn to Science | 205 |
Wordsworths Poetic Expectations in Old Age | 213 |
The Availability of Bulwers Poem | 221 |
The Availability of Hunts Review of Haydons Painting | 234 |
Further Changes Due to Young | 241 |
Abbreviations | 255 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Mind For Ever Voyaging: Wordsworth at Work Portraying Newton and Science |
| Authors | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober, Warren Ober |
| Contributor | Wordsworth Collection |
| Publisher | University of Alberta, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0888641354, 9780888641359 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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