...spontaneous will be complete. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: but 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...

...speaking to men" (13). The best language is that "really used by men" (4). The best poems were written by "a man who, being possessed of more than usual...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply" (6). The poet must avoid "unmanly despair" (15) when he feels inferior to "that which is uttered by...

...permanent, and far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it. ... Poems to which any value can be attached were never...produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who . . . had also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed...

...the consciousness of the poet: "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; but though this be true, Poems to which any value can...organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply" (Prose Works, i: 126). Emotion must be initially experienced by a poet and then "recollected in tranquillity"...

...right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; but 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...

...becomes the crucial cause: thus "[p]oems to which any value can be attached, were never produced ... but by a man who being possessed of more than usual...organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply". 3 The textual politics of romantic poetics was, of course, not merely a quibble over different metaphors...

...as it can be considered as a finished formal entity, but in a concern with the agency of the poet: For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of...which any value can be attached were never produced by any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed by a more than usual organic sensibility,...

...result has been quite rewarding for the poet. These poems are an "overflow of powerful feelings" of "a man who, being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." D There are certain persistent images in all the four books. Death seems to be the most dominant. The...

...all art.7 Now here is Wordsworth's frequently quoted, if awkwardly put, definition of "good" poetry: 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...

...right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; but 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...