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This marks the first half of a lecture on William Wordsworth's Immortality Ode. I discuss the unusual features of his emphasis on nature, and its theological features shorn of some of the specific features of Christian doctrine.
My contention is that Wordsworth, like all the Romantics, is an Enlightenment thinker who extends the Lockean idea of human nature as a tabula rasa to include our feelings.
To put it another way, Wordsworth collapses what Augustine called the ordo amoris from a historical framework into a psychological framework of experience and feeling.
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This marks the first half of a lecture on William Wordsworth's Immortality Ode. I discuss the unusual features of his emphasis on nature, and its theological features shorn of some of the specific features of Christian doctrine.
My contention is that Wordsworth, like all the Romantics, is an Enlightenment thinker who extends the Lockean idea of human nature as a tabula rasa to include our feelings.
To put it another way, Wordsworth collapses what Augustine called the ordo amoris from a historical framework into a psychological framework of experience and feeling.
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