Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... notion , that natural objects confer a similar stability on the manners they are said to induce in those who live ... notion of a simple , clear - cut analogy , of a rigid parallelism , between character and environment : a notion which ...
... notion , that natural objects confer a similar stability on the manners they are said to induce in those who live ... notion of a simple , clear - cut analogy , of a rigid parallelism , between character and environment : a notion which ...
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... notion of sign in elementary mathematics ; or , rather , of these elements as connected with , or producing , emotional effects which may be so con- ceived . Such a notion allows Wordsworth to describe the total effect of poetry as ...
... notion of sign in elementary mathematics ; or , rather , of these elements as connected with , or producing , emotional effects which may be so con- ceived . Such a notion allows Wordsworth to describe the total effect of poetry as ...
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... notion that what was natural in prose would be out of place in verse ; that it is not the Muse which puts on the garb but the garb which makes the Muse . And having adopted this notion at a time when vicious writings of this kind ...
... notion that what was natural in prose would be out of place in verse ; that it is not the Muse which puts on the garb but the garb which makes the Muse . And having adopted this notion at a time when vicious writings of this kind ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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