19. Shelley and Wordsworth in The Triumph of Life. Mont Blanc and the Sublime

Published: March 10, 2016, 10:25 p.m.

b'We look at "Rousseau" (= Wordsworth) in The Triumph of Life describing the disappearance of the shape all light, fading like Venus into the light of common day. \\xa0Then on to Mont Blanc as a poem about the struggle between the mind and the world as to which is to be master, and the jiu jitsu by which the mind wins by letting the world (= Mont Blanc)\\xa0utterly overwhelm it. \\xa0Relation to the sublime.'