 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 ページ
...submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement...imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems : I flattered myself... | |
 | 1910 - 482 ページ
...hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selec- I tjon of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, I that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 ページ
...mitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment1 which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement...imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems : I flattered myself... | |
 | 1913 - 816 ページ
..."The Widow in the Bye Street" with "Michael." That celebrated poetic diction of Wordsworth's — that "selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation" — "select" enough it is; but how "real" or how "vivid" is it when set beside the actual speech of... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 ページ
...submitted to general perusal. It was published as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use vulsed, in breeee, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole,...the torrid clime Dark-heaving—boundless, * M, endeavor to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those poems:... | |
 | William Lawrence Schroeder - 1916 - 288 ページ
...suggests the divine end of unity to which all great poetry moves. He wished to give poetical pleasure by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation ; casting over all, the colouring of imagination. By looking steadily at his subject he endeavoured... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 490 ページ
...there is very little. The passion seems forced. The diction is almost as far removed as possible from " the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." That the boldness of Wordsworth's genius has vanished is shown even by so small a matter as the frequent... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 ページ
...might be of some use to ascerta: by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real 5language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of...imparted, which a poet may rationally endeavour to impart. The principal object, then, proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common... | |
 | 1917 - 220 ページ
...suggestion until the 'language of conversation in the lower and middle classes of society' became, in 1800, 'a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation,' and after softening this, in 1802, by a further emphasis upon the selective power of the poet, Wordsworth... | |
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It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation... 
