 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...stated as follows : i. Subjects are to be taken from rustic or common life, "because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak plainer and more emphatic language." 2. The language of common... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pages
...choice for poetic purposes of themes and language from low and rustic life, because 'in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ' ; because rustics 'hourly... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 344 pages
...can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simpli- 30 city, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated... | |
 | Anthony Arblaster - 1992 - 356 pages
...really used by men. . . . Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity . . . This could almost be a manifesto not only for verismo, but for the other efforts that were made... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 pages
...ostensibly agrarian poetics: "Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language" (PrW, 1: 12.5). Notwithstanding... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...the 1800 and the 1802 prefaces: Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under constraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1998 - 516 pages
...Edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800): 'Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are under less restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language .... The language too of these... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 518 pages
...union, subordination, and regularity.' 'In the condition of low and rustic life,' says Wordsworth, 'the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity.' In the circumstances and feelings of this class he has found materials for poetry of a high order:... | |
 | J. E. M. Latham - 1999 - 302 pages
...on the values of the simple life where, as Wordsworth claimed in his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, "the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity." 6 The problems of society were increasing in complexity; founding a community seemed to provide a simple... | |
 | Janet Lyon - 1999 - 244 pages
...people" (quoted in Hunt 1984, 45, 73), with Wordsworth's assertions that in "low and rustic life . . . the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language" which operates apart from... | |
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Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language... 
