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The secondary Wordsworth's first of homes: Home at Grasmere (1985).(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060622
Author:Larkin, Peter

In Wordsworth and "The Recluse" (1984), Kenneth Johnston shows how, from 1798 onward, Wordsworth's principle endeavour was to become the poet of The Recluse, or move beyond the imagination as relevant only to a personal case history in order to demonstrate the workings of imagination in human life generally. For Wordsworth, however, this was certainly not a matter of moving simply from inner vision to culturally explicit prescription, but of reconciling the intrinsic powers of imagination with its own (for him) self-evident universality. In a verse fragment found in the Christabel ...

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