Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... moral beings if they did sympathise with.16 The poet , we gather from these passages , is a moral being , 17 he is morally right in perceiving the general truth of human conduct , and he aims to improve the moral standards of his ...
... moral beings if they did sympathise with.16 The poet , we gather from these passages , is a moral being , 17 he is morally right in perceiving the general truth of human conduct , and he aims to improve the moral standards of his ...
Page 102
... morally valuable , rather than to emphasise , as did the great satirists of a preceding generation , that deviation ... moral value . The text of 1802 shows a marked development in Wordsworth's con- ception of the general truth of human ...
... morally valuable , rather than to emphasise , as did the great satirists of a preceding generation , that deviation ... moral value . The text of 1802 shows a marked development in Wordsworth's con- ception of the general truth of human ...
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... moral feelings , I cannot content myself with these detached remarks . And if , in what I am about to say , it shall appear to some that my labour is unnecessary , and that I am like a man fighting a battle without enemies , such ...
... moral feelings , I cannot content myself with these detached remarks . And if , in what I am about to say , it shall appear to some that my labour is unnecessary , and that I am like a man fighting a battle without enemies , such ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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