1. Characters in
Wollheim's adult life are referred to by initials only.
The distinguished Kleinian psychoanalyst, Hannah Segal,
seems a likely candidate, given Wollheim's psychoanalytic
era and orientation.
2. Lord David Cecil,
Professor of English at Oxford; author of The Stricken
Deer: A Life of Cowper etc.
3. Both passages were
written at Racedown in Dorset, among the poorest of
agricultural counties at the end of the eighteenth
century. They survive in DC MS. 13; see Butler 461-62.
Reading texts and drafts are cited from this edition.
4. Cf. the episode of
the gibbet, associated with murder and hanging, is one of
the two germinating "spots of time" in the 1799 two-part
Prelude: "It was in truth / An ordinary sight
…" (1799; 1.319-20).
5. ". . . en un certain
sens, tout de même, elle me regarde. . . . Ce qui
est lumière me regarde" (Livre XI 89).
6. By now Wordsworth
had moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden in
Somerset, in order to be closer to his friends Pojjole
and Coleridge.
7. Entry for 25 January
1798. Cf. Dorothy's entry for a few days after, again
describing a landscape transformed by moonlight: "a
brighter gloss spotted the hollies" (Journals
5).
8. See Winnicott on
going to a concert: ". . . I say I created it, I
hallucinated it, and it is real . . . This is mad. But in
our cultural life we accept the madness, exactly as we
accept the madness of the infant" ("Fate" 58).
9. Derrida's
translator, Elizabeth Rottenberg, gives "like" as "in the
manner of."
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