 | Russell B. Goodman - 1990 - 182 pages
...situations from common life" in "language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect."93 Romantic empiricism is an imaginative empiricism, conceiving experience not just as given... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...says, "to choose incidents and situations from common life" and "to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way." To see merely the object is the sign of Peter Bell's imaginative poverty: "A primrose by a river's... | |
 | Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 pages
...heightening causes the scenes and situations of life to be tinctured with "a certain coloring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect." This estrangement of the ordinary, the transformation of the familiar into the unfamiliar,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...1801). Wordsworth's explanation is well known: the poems were to make the incidents of common life interesting 'by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature . . . Low and rustic life was generally chosen because in that situation the essential passions of... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1995 - 316 pages
...preface, William Wordsworth declares his intent to make the incidents and situations of common life "interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature" (Wordsworth and Coleridge 238-39). His claim for "interest" in his work, however, appears to stimulate... | |
 | Stephen Bygrave - 1996 - 364 pages
...his poems in the Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth also speaks of throwing over the language of such people 'a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way'. Again, we need to ask whose imagination is performing this process of covering and colouring. And again... | |
 | Samuel R. Delany - 1996 - 396 pages
...reminds us that poetry tries, for its goal, "at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way . . ." Presumably this secondary task is accomplished by unusual language. The question then is not... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - 262 pages
...Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth. looks in one direction, proposing to make "the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature" (ed. Owen, 156). Percy Bysshe Shelley looked the opposite way, regarding the poets themselves as lawgivers.... | |
 | Jonathan Allison - 1996 - 372 pages
...selection of language really used by men. and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect. Yeats took a similar view when, in "The Trembling of the Veil" in his Autobiography, he had... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way. Contrasts between the Augustan and Romantic ages are helpful but there are always exceptions to such... | |
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Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,... 
