 | 1878 - 860 pages
...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), "to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."f Each poem, we are told, has a purpose, and in his Preface, in a passage since omitted, Wordsworth... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 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...truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws four nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...make these incidents and situations interesting hy tracing in them, truly though not ostenta tiuusly, : # e g n s m { E Hum hle and rustic life was generally chosen hecause, in that condition, the essential passion of the... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 268 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...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Here we have a compendious statement of the radical difference between the practice of Wordsworth and... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1885 - 284 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...nature : chiefly as far as regards the manner in which WB> associate ideas in a state of excitement. Here we have a compendious statement of the radical difference... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 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...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' He contends that each of his poems has a worthy purpose ; that ' all good poetry is the spontaneous... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 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 interesting by tracing ia them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 pages
...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), " to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."* Each poem, we are * It may here be noted that the celebrated " Preface of 1800," as it appears in later... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 276 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." — Preface, 1802. It is evident that Wordsworth was at first only in part conscious of his deeper,... | |
 | 1915 - 556 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...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." This marks a great advance upon the sacred doctrine of Pope thatTrue Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,... | |
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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... 
