| Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...great moral poern, and is a portion of a more extended work, which is to he " a philosophical poern, containing views of man, nature and society ; and...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement." This fact, that Wordsworth is in the most appropriate sense a reflective poet, his readers and critics... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...most important work, is a great moral poem, and is a portion of a more extended work, which is to be " a philosophical poem, containing views of man, nature...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement." This fact, that Wordsworth is in the most appropriate sense a reflective poet, his readers and critics... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 486 pages
...distant scenes. Though Cowper, in his Task, and Wordsworth, in his Excursion, aimed at the same object, " to compose a philosophical poem, containing views of man, nature, and society," they pursued it by widely different means. The former seized upon the follies arid vices of society,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...been published. The whole fprms a philosophical poem, containing views of man, nature and society, and having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement; the first and third parts consisting chiefly of meditations in the author's own person, while in the... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 546 pages
...been published. The whole forms a philosophical poem, containing views of man, nature and society, and having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement : the first and third parts consisting chiefly of meditations in the author's own person, while in... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...Author's Intellect is deeply indebted, has been long finished; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it was a determination to compose a philosophical...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. — The preparatory poem is biographical, and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...author's intellect is deeply indebted, has been long finished ; and the result of the investigation which ; 1 — The preparatory poem is biographical, and conducts the history of the author's mind to the point... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...intellectual power; deeply indehted, hu.s been long finished; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it was a determination to compose a philosophical...subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.—The preparatory poem is hiographical, and conducts the history of the author's mind to... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...deeply indehted, has been long finished ; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it wa ; anc to be entitled, the Recluse ; as having for it principal subject the sensations and opinions... | |
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