 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1889 - 454 pages
...author's intellect is deeply indebted,* has long been finished ; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a...of Man, Nature, and Society ; and to be) entitled Tlie Recluse. . . . The preparatory poem is biographical, and the two works have the same kind of relation... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...was a determination to compose a philosophical poem, containmg views 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 llrst and third parts of The Recluse were to "consist chiefly... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 508 pages
...detached portion of an unfinished poem, containing views of man, nature, and society;" to be called the Recluse, as having for its principal subject the...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement ;" and to be preceded by a " record in verse of the origin and progress of the author's own powers,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
..."THE RECLUSE." [Wordsworth planned a philosophical Poem containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, to be entitled " The Recluse ; " as having for its...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. The Poem was to consist of three parts— the first, " The Prelude," a mental biography ; the second,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...intellect is deeply indebted [Coleridge], has been long finished, and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it was a determination to compose a philosophical...nature, and society, and to be entitled the 'Recluse.' " Of the ".Recluse," which was to consist of three books, the " Excursion " was to form the second,... | |
 | 1887 - 1016 pages
...necessary to explain briefly what the new work really is. As early as 1814 Wordsworth announced his determination to compose "a philosophical poem containing...sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement." Introductory to this work was the ' Prelude or history of a poet's mind,' which was completed in 1805... | |
 | Jacques Parmentier - English language - 1887 - 364 pages
...to be entitled The Recluse, which the author had at one time contemplated, and called by this name as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. The third part was only planned ; of the first, only one book was ever written. A long poem, The Prelude,... | |
 | William Angus Knight - Poets, English - 1889 - 452 pages
...author's intellect is deeply indebted,* has long been finished ; and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a...Nature, and Society ; and to be entitled The Recluse. . . . The preparatory poem is biographical, and the two works have the same kind of relation to each... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - 1152 pages
...Author's intellect is deeply indebted, his been long finished ; and the result of the -nvestigation which gave rise to it, was a determination to compose a philosophical Poem, conUiniog views of Man, Nature, and Society, and lo be entitled the ' Recluse ' ; as having for it... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - English poetry - 1890 - 1012 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...its principal subject the sensations and opinions ufa poet living in retirement. — The preparatory poem 1 is biographical, and conducts the history... | |
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Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement. 
