Wordsworth as Listener

About This Novel

"Unprecedentedly, in our time, many factors are working together to blunt the appreciation of the mind, making it unable to exert any initiative, and even degenerating into a barbaric and dull state." The British romantic poet William Wordsworth expressed his anxiety in the preface of "Lyric Ballads" and has always been committed to improving the sensitivity of people's hearts. He believes that "a great poet should correct people's feelings to a certain extent, bring new sensory experiences, and make people's feelings more sound, pure, and perfect." This book explores the way of perception of listening. In many poems, Wordsworth invites us to stop, listen, or simply walk by quietly. This is the poet's request to passers-by\u002F readers, which tests our perception. In the context of the "tyranny of vision" in the 18th century, people mistook the surface for the essence, and the poet perceived the sublime connotation beyond the image through listening. When he recovered from the crisis caused by rational thoughts, he gradually learned to listen to the "quiet and everlasting tragedy of human nature", which reflected the sympathy thought in the British romantic tradition. "Listening in Silence" presents the poet's difficult exploration between the empirical world and the spiritual world. With the development of science and technology, the Victorian era became the "age of auscultation." "Auscultation" has evolved from a medical invention to a diagnosis of the times. Since the 20th century, more and more philosophers have paid attention to the perceptual paradigm of listening. In a world where "seeing is belief and hearing is illusion", they firmly adhere to the principle that "we always believe what we hear." At the back of the book is a complete translation of Wordsworth's long poem "Setting Down in Grasmere".

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