Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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Page 12
... things , With life and nature . " At Cambridge he had from geometry " a still sense of permanent and universal sway ... things " in the city . Nature Holds up before the mind , intoxicate With present objects and the busy dance Of things ...
... things , With life and nature . " At Cambridge he had from geometry " a still sense of permanent and universal sway ... things " in the city . Nature Holds up before the mind , intoxicate With present objects and the busy dance Of things ...
Page 89
... things as they are ... as they exist in themselves , " and not of the poet , who deals with things " as they appear as they seem to exist to the senses , and to the passions . " 18 Another interpretation of the facts which the poem ...
... things as they are ... as they exist in themselves , " and not of the poet , who deals with things " as they appear as they seem to exist to the senses , and to the passions . " 18 Another interpretation of the facts which the poem ...
Page 124
... things silently gone out of mind , and things violently destroyed ; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society , as it is spread over the whole earth , and over all time . The objects of the Poet's ...
... things silently gone out of mind , and things violently destroyed ; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society , as it is spread over the whole earth , and over all time . The objects of the Poet's ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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