 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 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...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 when... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1870 - 382 pages
...Author's intellect is deeply ndebted, has been long finished; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a...views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled ;he 'Recluse;' as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 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 poem, containing viewa of Man, Xature, and Society ; and to be entitled, the * The Prelude.— Ed. Recluse ; as having... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 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...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 when... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...investigation which gave rise to it wa* a determination to compose a philosophical poem, containing views oi Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled " The...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 when... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...Author's intellect is deeply indehted, nas heen long finished ; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a...containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and tohe entitled the 'Recluse;' as having for its principal suhject the sensations and opinions of a poet... | |
 | william blackwood - 1871 - 810 pages
...Prelude" that the idea of this still greater work occurred to him. " The result of the investigation which gave rise to it was a determination to compose a philosophical poem containing views of men, nature, and society, to be called the Recluse." This Recluse was, we presume, the personage introduced... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...author's intellect is deeply indebTe£h£ 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 when... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 600 pages
...was meditating ' The Excursion,' he retired, as he tells us in his preface, into his native mountains to compose ' a philosophical poem, containing views...and to be entitled "The Recluse," as having for its subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in solitude.' In this seclusion the modern poet... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...meditating ' The Excursion,' lie retired, as he tells us in his preface, into his native mountains to compose 'a philosophical poem, containing views,...and to be entitled " The Recluse," as having for its subject the sensalions and opinions of a poet living in solitude.' In this seclusion the modern poet... | |
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Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. 
