The Mind of a Poet: A Study of Wordsworth's Thought, Volume 1Johns Hopkins Press, 1941 - 670 pages |
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... mountains . Hence in offering his thanks to nature as the source of whatever is best in him , he addresses Ye mountains , and ye lakes And sounding cataracts , ye mists and winds That dwell among the hills where I was born , ( ii . 424 ...
... mountains . Hence in offering his thanks to nature as the source of whatever is best in him , he addresses Ye mountains , and ye lakes And sounding cataracts , ye mists and winds That dwell among the hills where I was born , ( ii . 424 ...
Page 119
... mountain - tops , Such intercourse was his , and in this sort Was his existence oftentimes possessed . . ยท in the mountains did he feel his faith . All things . . . there Breathed immortality , revolving life , . . . There littleness ...
... mountain - tops , Such intercourse was his , and in this sort Was his existence oftentimes possessed . . ยท in the mountains did he feel his faith . All things . . . there Breathed immortality , revolving life , . . . There littleness ...
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... mountain's outline and its steady form Gives a pure grandeur " to the mind , " he is speaking of what he has seen and felt , in himself and others : the uplifting and enfranchising of the spirit by the mountains and the sea . His ...
... mountain's outline and its steady form Gives a pure grandeur " to the mind , " he is speaking of what he has seen and felt , in himself and others : the uplifting and enfranchising of the spirit by the mountains and the sea . His ...
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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