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Studies in Romanticism

THE SIMPLEST DESCRIPTION OF WHAT I PROPOSE IN THIS ESSAY IS SOURCE study. null source null question is the thought null Benedict de Spinoza, (1) which I would characterize as null submerged philosophical context null null number null nineteenth-century poetries. (2) My immediate goal is to identify and activate null resonance once triggered, I believe, by certain words, gestures, and claims that occur throughout William Wordsworth's poetry but that loom especially large null the early verse. Because Spinoza's thought carried null clear political valence null the age's climate null ideas, (3) hearing the Spinozistic echo null words such as joy, nature, affection, appetite, and motion (and claims such as And 'tis my faith that every flower / Enjoys the air it breathes) is to feel the presence null an active and pointed cultural engagement null poems that seem to lack null polemical element and null several cases to lack propositional content altogether. More interesting at this moment null the history null Roma...

A motion and a spirit: Romancing Spinoza