...strongly reinforced by importations from abroad, that Wordsworth was moved to protest against those "sickly and stupid German tragedies and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," which threatened to drive into neglect the invaluable works of the earlier English writers, such as...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have...

...invaluable works of our eider writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton , are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." Wordsworth — Prefacc to Lyrical Ballads. Radcliffe and others in tales of mystery and terror ; while...

...reviewers when he complains of the 'savage torpor' of the modern mind caused (in part) by the reading of 'frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse' (LB, p. 249). 3 Underlying such attacks is the recognition of a fundamental opposition between the...

...retrospective view of the issues involved. When Wordsworth refers (in his 1800 Preface to Lyrical Ballads) to "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," he is reflecting on literary work of the 1790s that Lewis epitomized and fostered. No text illustrates...

...Plain poems border on the "application of gross and violent stimulants" which are the property of those "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories" (Prose I, 1 28 ) that the older Wordsworth so intensely disliked, and which the later Prelude tries...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. . . . When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to...

...could confront, precisely of the sort that Wordsworth castigated in the "Preface" for its fondness for "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." 12 If the selection and presentation of poems published in the Morning Post managed in a small way...

...editions that Wordsworth fulminated against in the 1800 preface to the Lyrical Ballads: he attacked "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse" (Prose 1:128). The publishers of the works now considered major at first stood aloof from this new...

...invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear[e] and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." — Hier zit. nach Wordsworth's Literary Criticism, ed. by WJB Owen (London and Boston, 1974), 74....