Nutting

Dorothy's sudden emotional response to a flower here reminds us of her brother's pantheistic reaction to his own impulsive destruction of nature in "Nutting": "I felt a sense of pain when I beheld/The silent trees and the intruding sky -/Then, dearest Maiden ... with gentle hand/Touch, - for there is a Spirit in the woods" (ll.

The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature 2001

The elephant and the squirrel in "Nutting" seem to demonstrate an interest on Jones' part in integrating semi-realistic animal behavior into a WB-style gag cartoon.

Further Looneyness Jaime J. Weinman 2008

The elephant and the squirrel in "Nutting" seem to demonstrate an interest on Jones' part in integrating semi-realistic animal behavior into a WB-style gag cartoon.

Archive 2008-07-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

Certainly, this would seem to be the case in the poem "Nutting," composed in

Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics 2005

"The Not-browne Mayd," as Bishop Percy gives the title in his Reliques, was perhaps already 300 years old when Wordsworth was writing "Nutting," and it had already provided inspiration for other literary works, including Prior's Henry and Emma (Percy, headnote to "The Not-browne Mayd," II. 265-66).

Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

"Nutting" was composed in October to December, 1798, however, and so prefigures the Preface both imagistically and ideologically.

Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

The relationship Wordsworth builds up with the properly constructed reader displaces the woman reader, who is figured as resistance, and as in a poem like "Nutting," which represents the more fully medieval character of the two-volume edition of the Lyrical Ballads, as an object of knightly battle.

Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

In 1980, after a couple of years working as a British spy — arranging meetings, handing over tidbits — Scappaticci joined the IRA’s internal security unit, which IRA men called the Nutting Squad.

Double Blind 2006

In 1980, after a couple of years working as a British spy — arranging meetings, handing over tidbits — Scappaticci joined the IRA’s internal security unit, which IRA men called the Nutting Squad.

Double Blind 2006

At first, in fact, Wordsworth had thought "Nutting" would have a natural place in The Prelude, but he later struck it out, "as not being wanted there".

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