Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:13:02 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Fredrik Hertzberg LIT <fhertzbe-AT-ra.abo.fi>
Subject: Re: PLC: Poetry, prose, fiction as meaningful


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, George Y. Trail wrote:

> You may remember that Pater refers to the soi-disant "Renaissance" as
> the decadence of the medieval. You may call this writing "pre-classical"
> as much as you like, but you will not that reality is still to be found
> "out there," which is primary to the classical view. For romanticism the
> locus of reality becomes first problematic and then undeniably within
> the psyche.  Post-modernism as an acknowledgment of this sea-change.
> When Barthe says "getting to know Nature" he may even mean it.
> Wordsworth knew better. 

Please explain further the last three sentences which sound interesting 
but are too elliptical for me to get
Fred


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