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Idle Thought in Wordsworth's Lucy Cycle

Author(s) -

Richard C. Adelman

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

romanticism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.122

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 1750-0192

pISSN - 1354-991X

DOI - 10.3366/rom.2011.0009

Subject(s) - confession (law) , soul , poetry , situated , idle , task (project management) , art , literature , philosophy , art history , history , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , archaeology , management , operating system , economics

William Cowper’s ‘fearless’ ‘confession’ is situated, in The Task (1784), as an introduction to the free operations of the fancy that make up the poem’s influential ‘brown study’ episode. Having ‘a soul that does not always think’ serves, in the passage that follows, not as an inhibition so much as an opportunity for the poet’s mind to do much more than think.

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