The Child vis-à-vis God in the Poetry of William Wordsworth
The Child vis-à-vis God in the Poetry of William Wordsworth

Author(s): Eliza Borkowska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: William Wordsworth; “Immortality Ode”; The Prelude; Child; God
Summary/Abstract: This article continues the author’s analysis of William Wordsworth’s religious and social beliefs published in earlier volumes of this series. Here, the focus is on the poet’s portrayal of religious sensibility in childhood. The author questions why the belief that the child is imbued with divine light – so strongly expressed in the “Immortality Ode” – strangely enough is not present in Wordsworth’s numerous other poems on childhood.

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