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McDowell, Stacey (2017) Rhyming and undeciding in Wordsworth and Norman Nicholson. Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism, 23 (2). pp. 179-190. doi:10.3366/rom.2017.0324 ISSN 1354-991X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0324
Abstract
Wordsworth's poem ‘Yarrow Unvisited’ suggests that it is better not to go somewhere than to go and risk being disappointed. Responding to this idea in the poem ‘Askam Unvisited’, the twentieth-century Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson describes how he had planned to visit the dilapidated town of Askam in the southern Lake District only to face an agony of indecision before resolving in the end not to go. Both poets look forward to a time when they might be forced to look back with regret, and choose instead to preserve a sense of what might have been. A preoccupation with the passage of time and the consequences of decision-making is connected in these poems to the workings of rhyme, particularly to rhyme's relationship with effects of timing and determinism.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation, Nicholson, Norman, 1914-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation, Decision making , Decision making in literature, Rhyme, Counterfactuals (Logic) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism | ||||||
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1354-991X | ||||||
| Official Date: | July 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 23 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 179-190 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3366/rom.2017.0324 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Romanticism: the journal of romantic culture and criticism. The Version of Record is available online at: http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/rom.2017.0324 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 January 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 January 2020 |
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