 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...of "love of nature leading to love of man" in the pedlar's biography in 3a: The Ocean and the earth beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds...And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable joy. (Ms. B 9r, 157) Peter Manning, who reads "Incipient Madness" as the "germ" of The Ruined Cottage... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - Drama - 1998 - 208 pages
...Wordsworth makes it clear that at the same time a transformation is taking place in the receptive mind. Sound needed none Nor any voice of joy: his spirit...All melted into him. They swallowed up His animal being;29 (PWVp.382 11. 128-1 32) As almost always with Wordsworth, the transition takes place in a... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 417 pages
...(halfmoon). A matter of weeks later Wordsworth was to write of the Pedlar's universe of blessedness and joy, The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love . . . (Pedlar, 99-101) but at this point feeling is not yet identified with perception of the One Life.... | |
 | Florence Gaillet-de Chezelles - Walking in literature - 2007 - 436 pages
...s'accoler les unes aux autres : He looked, The ocean and the earth heneath him lay Ingladness and deepjoy. The clouds were touched And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound he needed none Nor any voice ofjoy: his spirit drank The spectacle. Sensation, soul andform Ail melted... | |
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He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. 
