The Mind of a Poet: A Study of Wordsworth's Thought, Volume 1Johns Hopkins Press, 1941 - 670 pages |
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... awful forms And viewless agencies : a passion , she . . . " and so forth . " It was the awful forms and viewless agencies of nature that were his passion ; it was " the tall rock , The mountain , and the deep and gloomy wood " that he ...
... awful forms And viewless agencies : a passion , she . . . " and so forth . " It was the awful forms and viewless agencies of nature that were his passion ; it was " the tall rock , The mountain , and the deep and gloomy wood " that he ...
Page 70
... awful Power [ which ] rose . . . Like an unfathered vapour , " , " but to call imaginative minds , Christian leaders , and books " Powers " is little more than a figure of speech . So with Wordsworth's wish that a work of his might ...
... awful Power [ which ] rose . . . Like an unfathered vapour , " , " but to call imaginative minds , Christian leaders , and books " Powers " is little more than a figure of speech . So with Wordsworth's wish that a work of his might ...
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... awful promise , when the light of sense Goes out in flashes that have shewn to us The invisible world , doth Greatness make abode , There harbours whether we be young or old . Our destiny , our nature , and our home Is with infinitude ...
... awful promise , when the light of sense Goes out in flashes that have shewn to us The invisible world , doth Greatness make abode , There harbours whether we be young or old . Our destiny , our nature , and our home Is with infinitude ...
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abstract analytical reason anima mundi animism anti-rationalism appear asserts awful beauty belief Biographia Literaria Brougham Castle chapter Coleridge Coleridge's communion conception consciousness Crabb creative deep Deity delight divine Dove Cottage earth emotion exalted Excursion external world faculty fear feeling felt final text forms Gravedona Grosart Hawkshead heart human ideas images Immortality Ode incidents infinity instinctive intellect invisible world J. A. Symonds Kilchurn Castle later leech-gatherer Letter lines living lonely places Lyrical Ballads means mind ministry ministry of fear mists mood moral mountains mystery mystic experience Nature's pantheism passage passion persons Peter Bell poem poet poet's poetry Preface of 1815 Preface to Lyrical Prelude presence quoted Recluse reference religion remarked Rylstone scene seems sense impressions Shawcross silence solitude soul speaks spirit sublime things thinking thought Tintern Abbey tion truth unifying unity universe variant viii Wanderer woods words Wordsworth wrote youth