The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth's Prelude

by Frank McConnell

Originally published in 1974. This book concerns the archetypal quality of Wordsworth's The Prelude, specifically the ways in which it develops and defines concepts of language, time, and narrative that influenced writers who came after Wordsworth. Frank D. McConnell sees the philosopher and theologian St. Augustine as the most suggestive analogue for the Wordsworthian quest for lost time and for the redemptive power of memory. McConnell maps similarities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421435543
• ISBN13: 9781421435541
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"