Wordsworthの瞑想的想像力とイギリスロマン派詩人(1)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the main attributes which constitute Wordsworth's imaginative and transformational activity in comparison with the other English romantic poets, especially Blake, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The main attributes are solitude, meditation and the other world. Wordsworth finds the other eternal world by his solitary meditation. His imagination works so well when he muses alone, and earthly things are transmuted into unearthly things at that time. The study of that process of transformation is the integral part of the understanding of Wordsworth. The first part of the study deals with the explanation about Wordsworth's specific qualities, and the comparison between Wordsworth and Shelley in connection with the solitude which is one of the specific qualities of Wordsworth's imaginative working. As Wordsworth loves the solitude, Shelley tries to do so. But the poet of Shelley's "Alastor" can not find "the bliss of solitude" as Wordsworth can. That's due to the difference between their ways of thinking.