...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...not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature". In the country, character is more sharply individualized. American men and women who win their bread...

...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. — p. 570: There will also be found in these volumes little of what is usually called poetic diction;...

...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...excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen. . . . The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified, indeed, from what appears to be its...

...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...excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen. . . . The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified, indeed, from what appears to be its...

...purpose aimed at, which is, by applying the habit of discrimination to incidents and situations, to trace in them, " truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature," is best attained in those walks of life where the passions to be contemplated work with greater simplicity...

...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...though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our natures, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."...

...imagination whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and further and above all, to make these incidents and situations...though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our natures, chiefly as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."...

...will be impressed. Wordsworth, who, in his vocation as a poet, made it his business to investigate " the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement," never ceased to be grateful to his teacher Nature for the discipline that set his own hungers and fears...

...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.' Had Wordsworth stopped short here his experiment must needs have proved a success, for it would have...

...stated in the Preface to the second, enlarged, edition, ' was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature.' 1 Here Wordsworth was combating quite a different, and a much more modern, evil than conventional ;tic...