Catachresis and the romantic will: The Imagination's usurpation in Wordworth's Prelude, book 6

The passage "Imagination" in "The Prelude", Book 6, by Wordsworth is discussed. The force of will exhibited in this passage is a paradoxical combination of actively exerted power and effortlessness, forced interruption and passively suffered usurpation. The essential trope in thi...

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Published in:Style (University Park, PA) PA), 1989-04, Vol.23 (1), p.16
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