 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,...  Poems - Page 343by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Authors, English - 1905 - 292 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pages
...virtue in an almost ; and (2) that it is the business of poetry to represent things 'not as they nre, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the senses and to the passions ' (WORDSWORTH, Essay Supplementary to Preface, 1815).... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they existed in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the senses, and to the paitiont. What a world of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 640 pages
...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, hut as they appear ; not as they existed in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 638 pages
...privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they existed in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses,...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them... | |
 | Books - 1910 - 482 pages
...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 634 pages
...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from... | |
 | Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur) - Chota Nāgpur (India) - 1912 - 684 pages
...as Wordsworth himself has denned the function of the poet : — The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, isto treat of things not as they are, but as they appear, not as they exist in themselves, but as they... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...(which, nevertheless, but a?they if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate appear. employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions. W. WORDSWORTH, Essay Supplementary to Preface, 1815. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 486 pages
...objective reactions. His view is impressionistic, for he says: " The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." There can be little doubt that he has in mind Hazlitt and Jeffrey, when he strikes with his thunderbolts... | |
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