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Felix Bernstein uploaded Wordsworth's Solipsism by James Shields to
Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 9 years, 2 months ago Shield somewhat convincingly argues that Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads highlights a shift from the designative referential linguistic theory of Locke to a theory of cathartic self-expression common to our idealized and contemporary notion of “Romantic poetry.” However, he complicates this idealism by showing Wordsworth’s self-consciousness about the way that the subject uses language for expression versus the way that language uses the subject for articulation of the unconscious. In this way he draws a thread from Locke to Wordsworth and finally Lacan.
