Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan

Guinn Batten

doi:10.1002/9781444390650.ch33

Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan

Guinn Batten

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Romantic Poetry
Publisher	Wiley Blackwell
Pages	572-588
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9781405135542
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390650.ch33
State	Published - May 3 2012

Keywords

"Feeling into Words," Seamus Heaney's - most celebrated and controversial essay (Heaney 1980).
"Romantic Enlightenment" - spurring Irish poets and Romantic scholars to seek to "know" the "feelings," moods, passions, melancholia and anger
Ethical supernaturalism - the Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan
Excavation of bogs, as sites of savagery, memory, and poetry for Wordsworth - exploration of erotics of political violence and ethics of affect
Heaney's "Clearances" and Lacan's ethics of das Ding - earlier and more polemical "Feeling into Words"
Heaney's central topic in "Feeling into Words" - "The Redress of Poetry" limiting poet's role in a time of war
Illimitable dimension of the Romantic sublime in a mind - turning against itself as against a "permanently impressive object"
Initial "apprehension of the tree" - Heaney claims, Wordsworth "instinctively realized" his true feelings in order to put them into words
must judgment free itself from the teleology of self-completion - a legacy sustained by the critical heritage of Wordsworth and Kant
Salisbury Plain, Wordsworth noting - "impressive" effect of "the monuments and traces of antiquity scattered in abundance over that region"

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