Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

Ford, Thomas H.

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“…To return to atmosphere's semantics, Ford suggests that the interdependence of its two definitions is traceable to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries [8]. This coincides with Romanticism's flourishing, when "atmosphere was used both to articulate the divergent autonomous forms taken by the poetic imagination and scientific disciplines, but also to mediate their continued communication" [8] § . Such practices are evident in the era's literary and visual arts, and, as this paper discusses later, constitute a shift in Western aesthetics.…”

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Traditional and Digital Representations of Atmosphere in Architecture. A first systematisation

Putra

2019

SHS Web Conf.

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In architecture, atmosphere and its many implications have, in recent years, received increased attention. This paper considers atmosphere in architectural representation, and begins with an exploration of different definitions of these atmospheric representations. This paper then identifies and summarises representations of atmosphere in architecture and their key aspects, and proposes, in the form of a timeline, a preliminary systematisation of these aspects. This paper considers both traditional and digital representations of atmosphere in architecture, and focuses on aesthetic and emotional qualities of atmosphere. Thus, this paper is not limited to realistic and scientific approaches of atmosphere as meteorological conditions, but extends to atmosphere as emotions and mood. This paper also suggests cross-fertilisation, in the representation of atmosphere, between architecture and other fields. Therefore, while this paper explores atmospheric representations in architecture, it establishes its discussions by crossing disciplinary boundaries. It is anticipated that this paper will encourage further research, including recommendations for negotiating the apparent incompatibility of traditional and digital representations, to maintain qualities characterising well-known examples from the past.

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Traditional and Digital Representations of Atmosphere in Architecture. A first systematisation

Putra

2019

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“…In his insistence that the sky is the "chief organ of sentiment," Constable shares with Herder and others in the period a sense that the most important attribute of air is that it is shared. 58 Against the background of this ideal, instances of the failure of (good) air to be properly shared emerged as well. In a section titled "Deoxygenation of the Atmospheric Air in Mills" of his book The Manufacturing Population of England: Its Moral, Social, and Physical Conditions, and the Changes Which Have Arisen from the Use of Steam Machinery; with an Examination of Infant Labour (1833), Manchester surgeon Peter Gaskell shows that air in factories is depleted of oxygen when they are not adequately ventilated.…”

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If a Painting Is Like a Window, Is It a Means of Ventilation?

Powell

2021

Grey Room

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“…In a recent discussion of atmospheric mediation in Romantic poetry, Thomas Ford has cited Locke's dictum that words are like the airy 'Medium through which visible objects pass', because 'their Obscurity and Disorder does not seldom cast a Mist before our Eyes'. 41 No wonder, then, that the naturaltruth-seeking Wordsworth finds Macpherson especially disorientating, because his 'translations' are not merely words substituted for things, but English words substituted for Gaelic words that-for the most part-were never really there.…”

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Floating in the Breath of the People: Ossianic Mist, Cultural Health, and the Creation of Celtic Atmosphere, 1760–1815

Kaminski-Jones¹

2021

Romanticism

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This essay uses Samuel Johnson's characterization of Gaelic culture as an essentially airborne phenomenon as the starting point for a wide-ranging consideration of the links between atmospheric and Celtic discourses during the Romantic era. This period has been deemed foundational to the literary ‘appearance’ of air and the conceptual formation of Celticity, but these two cultural phenomena have rarely been considered in tandem. Beginning with a discussion of the atmospheric ideas that underpin the Poems of Ossian's infamous mists, the essay argues that critics have largely ignored the complexity of Macpherson's medicalized ecologies of air. The essay then moves on to consider the development of comparable cloudy symbolism during the Welsh cultural revival of the 1790s, when overcast skies became an organising metaphor used to express the cultural benightedness of Wales. The often-unexamined cliché of ‘Celtic mistiness’ is revealed as a vital metaphor for the allure and imperfection of intercultural mediation.

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Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

Cited by 23 publications

References 154 publications

Traditional and Digital Representations of Atmosphere in Architecture. A first systematisation

Traditional and Digital Representations of Atmosphere in Architecture. A first systematisation

If a Painting Is Like a Window, Is It a Means of Ventilation?

Floating in the Breath of the People: Ossianic Mist, Cultural Health, and the Creation of Celtic Atmosphere, 1760–1815

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