Like Eli, Nancy Schaffer looks for instruction from the child Samuel after he hears God calling.
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Tag Archives: William Wordsworth
My Three Book Projects
In which I share my first three sabbatical–I mean retirement–book projects.
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Wordsworth Changed How We See Nature
Writer Margaret Drabble explains how Wordsworth changed the way we see the world.
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Derealized or Appareled in Celestial Light?
Wordsworth arrived at the underlying idea of “Intimations of Immortality” from a childhood experience that sounds like what psychology now calls depersonalization-derealization disorder.
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Visit Puerto Rico with Wings of Healing
Read through hurricane-weary eyes, Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” promises soulful hope.
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Wordsworth and a Depressed Philosopher
When utilitarian John Stuart Mill’s philosophy led him into despair, Wordsworth’s poetry saved him.
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Dissolving into the Glories of the Sun
Andrew Marvell’s “On a Drop of Dew” compares the soul’s visit to the earth realm to a dew drop. In the process, he references the manna in the wilderness, today’s Old Testament reading.
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Transfiguration: I Saw a Tree inside a Tree
Here’s a Christian Wiman poem for Transfiguration Poem that gets at those moments when the veil is momentarily lifted and we see into the life of things.
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