http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/wordsworth Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 09 May 2026 00:06:32 -0400 Sat, 09 May 2026 00:06:32 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1457/poetic-sovereignty-in-the-work-of-the-romantic-poets-self-determiniation-and-revolutionary-thought By Hayley E. Tartell - This essay first explores how Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley invoke the medium of language, specifically poetic language, to opine on the relationship between the reader’s sense experience and freedom. Subsequently, this piece delves into Romantic thinker Walter Benjamin’s analysis of Holderlin’s poetic language in order to reveal the power dynamics between poetry and the readership. Furthermore, by probing and fleshing out the work of Shelley, one can gain a deeper understanding of the nature of poetic sovereignty and its rootedness in themes of possession... Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:45 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1457/poetic-sovereignty-in-the-work-of-the-romantic-poets-self-determiniation-and-revolutionary-thought http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1154/wordsworths-tintern-abbey-conveying-experience-through-nature By Dale T. Fetterman - He describes what is and what was, and how the comprehension of this change has inspired a course of reflection that takes Wordsworth along a stream of thoughts about regret, present awareness and introspection, concluding with hope for the future. His sister Dorothy also is present as another physical being that Wordsworth is able to look to in order to draw further ideas about the impressions gained from gazing out upon the natural world. Despite the lack of physical action or movement within the piece, the progression of Wordsworth’s mental fluctuations and experiences are used in order... Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:07 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1154/wordsworths-tintern-abbey-conveying-experience-through-nature http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/873/wordsworths-prescient-baby-conceptions-of-the-mother-infant-relationship-in-the-development-of-the-self-1790s-1890s By Emilia Halton-Hernandez - This dissertation explores late eighteenth and nineteenth century views of the mother-infant[1] relationship and how they reveal conceptions of the self. I investigate historical changes in the understanding of infantile development, primarily through British baby diaries and childcare advice literature. In two cases examine French authors whose work was translated into English and widely read by an Anglophone audience.[2] First I consider William Wordsworth’s model of infantile development in his 1799 poem The Prelude and briefly look at Locke and David Hartley’s theories of the intellectual... Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:32 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/873/wordsworths-prescient-baby-conceptions-of-the-mother-infant-relationship-in-the-development-of-the-self-1790s-1890s