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Approaching Wordsworth’s entire poetic and prosaic oeuvre from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet’s religious discourse, including the methodology of The Prelude revision and Wordsworth’s technique of "bracketed religion".

Probing the philosophical foundations of Wordsworth’s religious outlook, this book takes its reader on a journey into the mind of the poet who happened to record in his verse the rise to prominence of some of the most troublesome uncertainties which have defined Western culture for the last three centuries.

Starting with Locke’s philosophy of language, which turns words into bricks and uses them to build a rigid system of science and morality, this book is a response to Blake’s un-Lockian thought through an analysis of his linguistic practices. It is an attempt to understand why Blake says what he says the way he does.While being a study of Blake’s poetics, the book is at the same time a poetic study that never attempts to translate poetry into prose. It reads like a narrative, telling of an effort to build, an attempt to destroy, and then rebuild again. Primarily aimed at Blake readers,...