Wordsworth as Scatterbrain
Deconstructing the ‘Nature’ of William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12596315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claus Schatz-Jakobsen (0000-0003-2807-643X, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-212 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics Place & Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668790802252405 |
| OpenAlex | W2003415754 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In his Guide to the Lakes (1810, 1835), the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth used the word ‘nature’ in two senses. Sometimes it denoted a holistic ideal, in the manner of metaphysicians, and sometimes a concrete landscape of discrete things, in the manner of natural scientists. The Guide to the Lakes thus marks a watershed in Western philosophy of nature. Although chronologically the ideal preceded the concrete landscape, conceptually the concrete landscape precedes the ideal, much as in Nietzsche's ‘fiction of causation’
Art · Causation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Poetry · Romance · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |