A mind for ever voyaging : Wordsworth at work portraying Newton and science
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A mind for ever voyaging : Wordsworth at work portraying Newton and science
University of Alberta Press, c1989
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index
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Wordsworth 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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