 | 1873 - 892 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... | |
 | 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 - 596 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...Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled "The Recluse,"as having for its subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in solitude.' In this... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...Excursion,' he retired, aa he tells us in his preface, into his native mountains to compose ' a philosophies, poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled " The Re cluse," as having for its subject the senss 402 4°3 tions and opinions of a poet living in solitude.'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1874 - 88 pages
...author's intellect is deeply indebted, is 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 two works (the Prelude and the Excursion] have the same kind of relation to each other, if... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 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... | |
 | Albert Fels - 1875 - 34 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 (viz. the Prelude)' is biographical, and conducts the history of the Author's... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...determination to compose a philosophical poem, containing viexys of Man, Nature, and Society; aud to_ be entitled The Recluse; as having for its principal...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement." The same Preface informs us, also, that the flrst and third parts of The Recluse were to " consist... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 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... | |
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Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. 
