 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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...with them ^.purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, l 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 Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Pool. For all good poetry it the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ; and...though this be true, poems to which any value can b« lis t attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed... | |
 | Archibald Weir - Europe - 1886 - 644 pages
...it took on a new aspect and betrayed unnoticed relations to man's higher self. " Poems," he said, " to which any value can be attached, were never produced...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." And in a letter written towards the end of his life, he spoke of the spirituality with which he had... | |
 | 1887 - 1010 pages
...Gemeentebestuur, Leger-officieren, Professoren en de beste burgery. 4) Wordsworth : Observations : 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... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - English literature - 1889 - 196 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...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." 68 WORDSWORTH. It is Wordsworth's excellence that his best poetry is the spontaneous overflow of the... | |
 | American fiction - 1924 - 570 pages
...given to each school to play with; but taken as a whole it presents to us the whole Wordsworth: — For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. Mr. Beatty may say that Wordsworth is the poet of Associationism, and Mr. Garrod that he is the poet... | |
 | American fiction - 1924 - 550 pages
...given to each school to play with; but taken as a whole it presents to us the whole Wordsworth: — For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. Mr. Beatty may say that Wordsworth is the poet of Associationism, and Mr. Garrod that he is the poet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1892 - 214 pages
...Chaucer are almost always expressed in language pure and universally intelligible even to this day. , to which any value can be attached were never produced...organic sensibility, had also thought long and'' deeply .^^for our continued influxes of feeling 5 are rn6dified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 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...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... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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...subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than unusual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling... | |
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