'After Nature' in William Wordsworth's 'Speech at the Laying of the Foundation Stone.'

Nature in Wordsworth - a conformist category- has come under steady fire since the 1970s for having been construed as an adherent to imagination. Research, nourished by the foundational principles of Deconstruction, has falsified such conclusions, reiterating that not only is imagination an unconditioned category contradictory to nature, it is what terrorizes nature upon confrontation. I have deigned to call it 'After-Nature', an epi-noumenon devised to theorize such confrontations and draw critical materials from them. In this paper, I summarize the principles of 'After-Nature' by drawing on Wordsworth's prose-tract, equating it with an aesthetic attitude contra beautiful or nature, hence Sublime.