 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
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...poetry is the spontaneous overflow of pj)werfuljeelings: and though thts be true, Poems to whicfTany value can be attached were never produced on any variety...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 Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 pages
...purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For ^U_gppd_2oetryjs the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: and...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 Thomas - English poetry - 1911 - 388 pages
...say) in inspiration." Wordsworth is certain that all good poetry is written in this way. He says : All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful...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 - 1911 - 296 pages
...to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the l^ipojitaneous overflow of powerfiiLfeebngs ! but though this be true, Poems to which any value can...produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who 19 /being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility had ralso thought long and deeply. For our... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 344 pages
..." Poetry," he says, " is the image of man and nature, its object being to disclose their unity, and poems to which any value can be attached were never...but by a man who being possessed of more than usual sensibility had, also, thought long and deeply." We discover here the important truth which lies at... | |
 | Albert Granberry Reed - Poetry - 1914 - 20 pages
...effectiveness. 8 A third element in poetry is thought or reflective thinking. Wordsworth tells us that "poems to which any value can be attached were never...subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than ordinary sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." A psychological analysis reveals that thinking... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 344 pages
..." Poetry," he says, " is the image of man and nature, its object being to disclose their unity, and poems to which any value can be attached were never...on any variety of subjects but by a man who being posssed of more than usual sensibility had, also, thought long and deeply." We discover here the important... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...along with them a purpose. If this opinion be erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a poet. v'ry close, And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her...blood-stain 'd sword in thunder down And with a with 'ring For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...with them a purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...with them a purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. res no persuasion of argument, but simply the, evidence of the senses, to convince them that For our continue 1 '! influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed... | |
| |
