ONE "Go forward, and look back"—
Wordsworth’s Theologies of the Future and Past Encounters
TWO "How exquisitely the individual Mind / . . . to the external World is fitted"—
The Absent Present
THREE A Recluse—
The Esemplastic Power of the Imagination
FOUR "The philosophic mind"—
The Author’s Method(s) for the Imagination
FIVE The Recluse—
The Presence of the Absence
SIX Retrospect—
The Presence of the Absence (Concluded): Wordsworth’s Discourses on God
Biography
Eliza Borkowska (https://www.elizaborkowska.com/info) is Associate Professor of Literature at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw and the author of But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body: Blake’s Revelation Un-Locked (2009). She is currently working as a co-author on the first translation of Blake’s Jerusalem into Polish.
“This book is written with a passion that is unusual in academic criticism. It has a clear and coherent argument, but it is nuanced and discriminating as well as bold. It is rigorous, in its close attention to the minute particulars of Wordsworth’s craftsmanship, but it is also lively, witty, and consistently a pleasure to read.” Heather Glen, University of Cambridge, UK.
