...Essay, Supplementary to the Preface of 1815 (Prose in 63) that The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine is as permanent as...employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist...

...endeavours to make a virtue of poetry's representational inadequacy: The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duly, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear, not as they exist in themselves, but...

...of labor and study, of dedicated and sustained interpretive commitment to a language that "treatfs] of things not as they are, but as they appear; not...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." Such an ennobling commitment to poetry as part of "general literature" and hence "as a study" naturally...

...poetry in the Essay, Supplementary to the Preface to Poems (1815): The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions. 6 There are, to be sure, to the postmodern mind, certain stumbling-blocks in this short passage; such...

...opposed to Wordsworth's, seeing in latter's comment that 'the appropriate business of poetry [...] is to treat of things not as they are but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions' the polar opposite of Whitman's poetics, which is...

...this passage in Wordsworth's "Essay Supplementary to the Preface": The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...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...