 You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my Poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them...  The North American Review - Seite 4921851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 Seiten
...wrote the poem with exceeding delight and pleasure, and whenever I read it I read it with pleasure. You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...do more than this ; he ought, to a certain degree, s to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feel^-' ing, to render their feelings... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 Seiten
...wrote the poem with exceeding delight and pleasure, and whenever I read it I read it with pleasure. You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this j he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling,... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1878 - 278 Seiten
...looked upon the vocation of the poet to be, to elevate and purify the mind. To a friend he writes : " You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my poems the feelings of human nature. But a great poet ought to do more than this ; he ought, in a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings,... | |
 | Church congress - 1886 - 520 Seiten
...his function. The greatest of our nineteenth century poets, Wordsworth, writes thus to a frimd : " You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...and permanent ; in short, more consonant to nature and the great moving spirit of things." The experience of those of us who have felt Wordsworth's influence... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 Seiten
...edification as is proper to a poet ? " You have given me praise," Wordsworth wrote to John Wilson, "for having reflected faithfully in my poems the feelings...and permanent ; in short, more consonant to nature and the great moving spirit of things." To render men's feelings more sane, pure, and permanent —... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 450 Seiten
...wrote the poem with exceeding delight and pleasure, and whenever I read it I read it with pleasure. You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...my poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain IX. 2 c hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this ; he ought, to a certain... | |
 | 1892 - 1020 Seiten
...was a lofty conception of what a " dedicated spirit" a poet should be. In a letter written in 1801 he says : You have given me praise for having reflected...faithfully in my poems the feelings of human nature. But a great poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...philosophy, and not to poetry — to exception, and not to rule — to accident, and not to substance. . . . You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...hope that I have done so. But a great poet ought to Aims of a do more than this ; he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify gli:at poet' men's feelings,... | |
 | Elizabeth Glass Marshall - 1925 - 356 Seiten
...envying the rising generation!" THE POET'S "A great poet," says Wordsworth to John Wilson, '"— MISSION ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, *' to give them new composition of feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, and permanent - in short, more consonant... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1919 - 450 Seiten
...thus far been said on the subject of Leaves of Grass than these words of England's philosopher poet: "You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully...feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, permanent; in short, more consonant to nature, and the great moving spirit of things." I have thus... | |
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