Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind

Newbon, Peter (2015) Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind. In: The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth. Oxford University Press, pp. 712-732. ISBN 978-0199662128

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Abstract

This chapter explores Wordsworth’s philosophical attitudes towards psychological development and the growth of the child’s mind. It situates Wordsworth’s psychological poetry in the context of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific discourses upon the nature of the mind. Wordsworth’s poetry embodies a continuation of Enlightenment thought, but it also manifests a sceptical critique of the Enlightenment, and of the limits of human understanding of the mind. Wordsworth’s two most seminal poems on the growth of the child’s mind are The Prelude (1805) and Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807). This chapter defines Wordsworth’s concept of psychological development through the dialectical relationship between these poems.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	C800 Psychology Q300 English studies V300 History by topic
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2018 12:32
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 18:30
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/36780

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