Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... look elsewhere for an account of pleasures specifically the poet's.2 1 These particular pleasures are evidently not present even if the emotion of stages 1 and 4 should happen to be a " pleasant " one : they are relevant to the act of ...
... look elsewhere for an account of pleasures specifically the poet's.2 1 These particular pleasures are evidently not present even if the emotion of stages 1 and 4 should happen to be a " pleasant " one : they are relevant to the act of ...
Page 99
... looks forward to that significant general heading in the Poems of 1807 , " Moods of My Own Mind , " and , even more significantly , to The Prelude.24 It is probably to this emphasis that we should look for the reason why , to Wordsworth ...
... looks forward to that significant general heading in the Poems of 1807 , " Moods of My Own Mind , " and , even more significantly , to The Prelude.24 It is probably to this emphasis that we should look for the reason why , to Wordsworth ...
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... look , " he wrote in 1800 , for Man , The common Creature of the brotherhood , Differing but little from the Man elsewhere . ? He thought his own time peculiarly in need of such a search , his own generation peculiarly insensitive to ...
... look , " he wrote in 1800 , for Man , The common Creature of the brotherhood , Differing but little from the Man elsewhere . ? He thought his own time peculiarly in need of such a search , his own generation peculiarly insensitive to ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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