Ng, Chak Kwan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-136). / Abstract also in Chinese. / INTRODUCTION / The Necessity of Being Performative: / the Cases of William Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- "Context, Literary Events and the Institution of Literature" --- p.12 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- Individualism: the Invention of Romantic Subjectivity in William Wordsworth --- p.50 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- Subjectivity in Crisis: the Invention of Modern Subjectivity in T. S. Eliot --- p.90 / "Conclusion ""Change More Than Language"": The Acts of Poetry" --- p.127 / WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.132