![]() ![]() Wordsworth hinges his ability to perceive - and make perceivable - the "external man" upon his own evolving understanding of inner freedom, claiming that his theme is "no other than the very heart of man." In The Prelude, especially of 1850, I find a direct link between the degree of personal freedom gained by the poet and the perfection of the human gestalten he depicts, the connection detailed by this dissertation. Thus focusing on "existentia" rather than "essentia," I pay particular attention to shaping inner efforts and developing visions of the growing and conscious personality as they are described in The Prelude. In complementary response to socio-historisists who discuss the concept of "freedom" in William Wordsworth's poetry as determined from without - be it by socio-historical conditions, gender, or imposed ideology - I draw from the theory of Nicholas Berdyaev, one of the prominent continental existentialists of the twentieth century, tracing the development of Wordsworth's understanding of freedom towards "genuine liberty" as progressively determined from within. ![]() ![]() Haltrin Khalturina.–Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: UMI Dissertation Services, 2002.– Pp. “Uncouth Shapes” and Sublime Human Forms of Wordsworth’s The Prelude in the Light of Berdyaev’s Personalistic Philosophy of Freedom / by E.V. ![]()
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