 | Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber - 1997 - 396 pages
...own operations: it studies as well as provokes emotion. The product of a meditative mind, it traces "the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" so that the reader can in turn make sensation the subject of thought (in Wordsworth and Coleridge 1969:156).... | |
 | Thomas Pfau, Robert F. Gleckner - 1998 - 492 pages
...language "whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature" (71; italics mine). Here what is novel shocks us out of our complacency precisely because it lays bare... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 pages
...us, are the poetic description of ordinary reality and the dramatic presentation of human psychology, 'the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement' ( WProse, I:1zz- 4); and these depend upon 'the affectionate Love of Nature & Natural Objects' and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pages
...PRINCIPAL OBJECT then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of the heart... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 pages
...PRINCIPAL OBJECT then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of the heart... | |
 | Hans Werner Breunig - 2002 - 356 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, die primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in... | |
 | Martin Travers - 2001 - 372 pages
...imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations...tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, Source: William Wordsworth, Poetical Works, edited by Thomas Hutchinson, in a new edition, revised... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2001 - 268 pages
...his "principal object" in composing his contributions to Lyrical Ballads his ambition "to make . . . incidents and situations interesting by tracing in...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature. . . ,"13 To trace these primary laws of our nature is to call attention to "certain inherent and indestructible... | |
 | Emma Driver - 2001 - 150 pages
...common life, and to relate or describe them ... in a selection of language really used by men ... Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart ... are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. (LB, 433) Note here that the... | |
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... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the... 
