 For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility,...  American Anthropologist - Page 1241893Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...with them a purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...organic sensibility, had also thought long, and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1840 - 370 pages
...along with them a purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had ulso thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...along with them a purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, liad also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...along with them a purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...be attached were never produced on any variety of subjeets but by a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry U the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : ami though this be true, Poems to which any value can...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1850 - 818 pages
...as much as the more fervid and imaginative utterance of younger poets. "All good poetry," he says, " is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ;...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are, indeed,... | |
 | 1850 - 782 pages
...as much as the more fervid and imaginative utterance of younger poets. "All good poetry," Ь says, "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...be attached were never produced on any variety of subjecte but by a man who. beinj possessed of more than usual organic eensibilii}, had also thought... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1850 - 766 pages
...as much as the more fervid and imaginative utterance of younger poets. " All good poetry," tr says, "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings...which any value can be attached were never produced OR any variety of subjects but by a man who. being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...with them a purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." It may be useful to the attentive reader of these earlier poems to know not only that they had a purpose,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...along with them a purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good . poetry is the spontaneous overflow...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the... | |
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