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Romantic Things

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

By: Mary Jacobus

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Hardcover | 1 September 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in Romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art.ÿJacobus discusses objects and attributes that test our perceptions and preoccupy both Romantic poetry and modern philosophy. John Clare, John Constable, Rainer Maria Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Gerhard Richter make appearances around the central figure of William Wordsworth as Jacobus explores trees, rocks, clouds, breath, sleep, deafness, and blindness in their work. While she thinks through these things, she is assisted by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Helping us think more deeply about things that are at once visible and invisible, seen and unseen, felt and unfeeling, Romantic Things opens our eyes to what has been previously overlooked in lyric and Romantic poetry.

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"Presenting a distinctive and thoughtful account of Wordsworth that is studded with memorable formulations, Mary Jacobus makes lyric poetry an unremitting study of responsiveness to material and immaterial things. This book will be of significant interest to scholars working on romanticism, on Wordsworth's poetry, and on the notion of lyric in its most capacious form." (Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University)"

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Literary Theory Miscellaneous Items Education Literary Studies from 1900 to Current

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Gravity of Things	p. 1
Cloud Studies: The Visible Invisible	p. 10
Pastoral, after History: The Apple Orchard	p. 36
Touching Things: "Nutting" and the Standing of Trees	p. 61
Composing Sound: The Deaf Dalesman, "The Brothers " and Epitaphic Signs	p. 79
"Distressful Gift": Talking to the Dead	p. 94
The Breath of Life: Wordsworth and the Gravity of Thought	p. 114
"On the Very Brink of Vacancy": Things Unbeseen	p. 128
Senseless Rocks	p. 150
Notes	p. 177
Index	p. 213
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