 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 486 ページ
...the poet, whose prejudices were known to him beforehand. " He remarked afterwards, "Dewey continues," that, although he was known to the world only as a...condition and prospects of society for one to poetry." Dorothy's distressing condition lay heavily upon him. At the best she was able to sit or be wheeled... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - 330 ページ
...Quite the contrary. To an American visitor, in 1833, he declared with emphasis that for all his life he had given twelve hours' thought to the condition and prospects of society for every one hour given to poetry. His interest in the course of English politics was never keener than... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1917 - 152 ページ
...harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart. 1 Wordsworth said to a friend in 1833, ' That although he was known to the world only as a...condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry,' See W. Hale White, Examination of (he Charge of Apostasy against Wordsworth, p. 16, citing Works of... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1919 - 266 ページ
...calling attention to the great part politics may play in the life of a poet. Wordsworth said, in 1833, that " although he was known to the world only as...condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry." He did not retire into a " wise passiveness " as regards the world's affairs until he had written some... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 ページ
...studies of his writing; he is himself reported to have said that, "although he was known to the world as a poet, he had given twelve hours thought to the condition and prospect of society, for one to poetry."27 Burke is a figure of such seminal importance for the political... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 ページ
...She Sings?" -.The Solitary Reaper and the Contexts of Criticism Wordsworth once told an acquaintance that "although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours of thought to the conditions and prospects of society, for one to poetry."1 Despite such an important... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1993 - 330 ページ
...most important works, was such a period, as they were all aware. Wordsworth told an American visitor that "although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours thought to the conditions and prospects of society, for one to poetry."1 Coleridge and Southey were both active as... | |
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He remarked afterward that although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours' thought to the condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry. 
