TY - BOOK AU - Havens,Raymond Dexter ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Mind of a Poet: A Study of Wordsworth's Thought with Particular Reference to "The Prelude" SN - 9781421434339 AV - PR5881 .H35 1967 KW - Wordsworth, William, KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - On t.p. verso: Originally published 1941; second printing 1957; third printing 1962; fourth printing 1967; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Reprint of the 1941 edition published by Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore; Includes bibliographical references and index; Bibliographical reference is "Notes" at end of each chapter; Volume I: A study of Wordsworth's thought -- The matter-of-factness of Wordsworth -- Passion -- The ministry of fear -- Solitude, silence, loneliness -- Animism -- Nature -- Anti-rationalism -- The mystic experience -- Religion -- Imagination -- Index; Open Access N2 - Originally published in 1941. This book stresses the transcendental, rather than purely aesthetic, qualities of William Wordsworth's work. It argues that the unusual aspects of Wordsworth's mind are not isolated and did not seem to him fanciful or merely personal; they were, for him, so many paths, difficult to find and harder to follow, yet leading to the great central truth that is the goal of all humankind's loftier strivings UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71677/ ER -