...Then Wordsworth goes on to show how poetry supplies the place which scandal and gossip had occupied. Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pnre and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness...

...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, Books, are each a world ; and books, we know,...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen...

...expressed or implied, does not appear, one finds Wordsworth paying tribute to books in words such as these: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. and praising the poets—Shakespeare and Spenser specifically— The Poets who on earth have made us...

...Fates, but those who may be the victims of unfortunate circumstances, the truth of Wordsworth's thought: Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know...both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong and flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Two problems confront the teacher of...

...immortal, shall never die, but shall serve, and be loved by the children of men for ever. Says Wordsworth: Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good, Round which, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood. Our pastime and our happiness can grow. than Nature...

...furnished me From mine own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Wordsworth sings : Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, -we know,...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Half a lifetime spent in the laborious process of suppressing dacoity, pursuing malefactors, and generally...

...hundred-handed giant who sided with Zens in the Olympians' war against Briareus's fellow-Titans. for books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure...flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.2 Fiction has yet another claim to our regard as a vehicle for the transmission of opinion; the...

...turns in his reminiscences of Othello. In the sonnet sequence Personal Talk ( 1 8021804) he declares, "Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we know, / Are a substantial world," and he continues: And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. (33-34,40-42) Wordsworth opposes these...

...wilderness and wood, Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood Which with the lofty sanctifies the low. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,...and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. There find I personal themes, a plenteous store, Matter wherein right voluble I am, To which I listen...

...eight inscriptions are as follows: Studies perfect nature and are perfected by experience. — Bacon Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. — Wordsworth Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. — Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost — Pope...