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Wordsworth and the Zen Mind: The Poetry of Self-Emptying

Wordsworth and the Zen Mind: The Poetry of Self-Emptying

Rudy, John G.

Paperback

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0791429040
ISBN13: 9780791429044
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 4 1996
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Studies Wordsworth in the context of Zen thought and art.

This book demonstrates that Zen thought and art provide both a generative and a formative context for understanding the spirituality of the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Combining methods of modern literary scholarship with the philosophical initiatives of the Kyoto School, the text crosses disciplines as well as cultures, offering a nonmonotheistic, nonpantheistic philosophical ground upon which to study what Wordsworth calls the tranquil soul and the one Presence that underlies the great whole of life. Anticipating a variety of audiences, the discourse progresses from general, introductory level discussions of Zen philosophy and literature to the more technical philosophical idiom of the Kyoto School, employing intertextual readings of a variety of Wordsworthian and Zen documents to broaden and deepen the East-West dialogue as it has been unfolding since the pioneering work of D. T. Suzuki and Kitaro Nishida.

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