A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Ostension: 1. Non-construction: history, structure, and the ostensive movement in literature 2. One last theme: literature as insignificance 3. The hum of literature: ostension in language 4. The torturer's horse: what poems see in pictures Part II. Non-Epiphany: 5. Clearings in the way: non-epiphany in Wordsworth 6. Nil reconsidered: criticism, actuality, and 'To Autumn' 7. Possession of the sublime, repression of insignificance Part III. Return of the Same: 8. The absent dead: Wordsworth, Byron, and the epitaph 9. Disposing of the body: the common sene of the romantic moment of dying Conclusion The ethics of suspending knowledge.

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