 | Maggs Bros - 1914 - 866 pages
...which is passed away, and the other an indisposition to bend to the law of death as applying to our particular case. A Reader who has not a vivid recollection...human soul whose importance is insisted upon in the Exn. And some of those images of sense (Continued over) Wordsworth (William)— continued. which are... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson, William Wordsworth - 1927 - 582 pages
...least I have taken every possible pains to make it so Therefore you will have no difficulty here — The impediments you may meet with will be of two kinds...dwelt upon as holding that relation to immortality & infinity which I have before alluded to — If a person has not been in the way of receiving these... | |
 | Louise Chawla - 1994 - 260 pages
...poem rests entirely upon two recollections of childhood." One was "splendour in the objects of sense," and the other "an indisposition to bend to the law...feelings having existed in his mind in childhood," he cautioned, "can not understand that poem."" Ponsot's poetry leaves open the possibility of "outlands,"... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...which is passed away, and the other an indisposition to bend to the law of death, as applying to our particular case. A Reader who has not a vivid recollection of these feelings having existed in his mind cannot understand that poem. After 1815 Wordsworth deleted the following passage (after line 121),... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - 1998 - 208 pages
...childhood, one that of away, and the other an indisposition to bend to the law of death as applying to our particular case. A reader who has not a vivid recollection of these feelings having existed in his life cannot understand that poem." 58. The 1798 version: "There was a boy - ye knew him well, ye rocks... | |
 | Joseph C. Sitterson - 2000 - 228 pages
...which is passed away, and the other an indisposition to bend to the law of death as applying to our particular case. A Reader who has not a vivid recollection...his mind in childhood cannot understand that poem. (WL 5:189) Wordsworth's emphasis is a commonplace in Romantic discussions of form, its best-known version... | |
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This poem rests entirely upon two recollections of childhood; one that of a splendour in the objects of sense which is passed away; and the other an indisposition to bend to the law of death, as applying to our own particular case. A reader who has not... 