ENGL 3524 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: My Heart Leaps Up, Thomas De Quincey, Lists Of Transformers Characters
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Romanic writers did more than redeine childhood; it was in great part through their theoreical and imaginaive works that childhood rose to the prominence it coninues to hold in the western cultural tradiion. In a number of ways the child took on a centrality in romanic wriing wholly unprecedented in cultural history. Richardson goes on to credit locke"s associaionist ideas in which early experience and educaion become all important in shaping the adult. Richardson comments on the nature of rural childhoods in novels of the period, containing a view of the romanic child as being remains solitary. Richardson discusses wordsworth"s poetry, paricularly those poems that celebrate the. Spontaneous, unsocialized, egoisical child of nature. nature, for wordsworth, provides a rich mine of associaions and experiences that contribute to the growth of a. Chosen spirit. " richardson discusses coleridge"s poetry in less detail, but concentrates on those poems concerning his son hartley (the ulimate romanic child).
