A motion and a spirit: romancing Spinoza.(Benedict de Spinoza)(Essay)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: December 22, 2007| Author: Levinson, Marjorie | Copyright information

THE SIMPLEST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT I PROPOSE IN THIS ESSAY IS SOURCE study. The source in question is the thought of Benedict de Spinoza, (1) which I would characterize as a submerged philosophical context in a number of nineteenth-century poetries. (2) My immediate goal is to identify and activate a resonance once triggered, I believe, by certain words, gestures, and claims that occur throughout William Wordsworth's poetry but that loom especially large in the early verse. Because S...

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