...of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed;...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (PrW, i: 141) This assertion of great distress at the loss of a stable, meaningful field of reference...

...and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silendy gone out of mind, and things violendy destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (Prose, I, 118-88, p. 141). This is an audience considered so much in the abstract as to become almost...

...life." (Arnold's argument is clearly inspired by Wordsworth's famous description of the poet, binding "together by passion and knowledge the vast empire...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time." Poetry, as Wordsworth argues, connects; science individuates.)'' And Greek culture, for Arnold and...

...question: 'He is a man speaking to men . . . carrying everywhere with him relationship and love ... He binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.' And this vast empire of society includes the mean and the vulgar no less than the noble and the refined,...

...defense of human nature . . . carrying everywhere with him relationship and love ... in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things violently destroyed,...passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. (Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1 802) We, 'ell before the actual publication date of the two-volume second...

...in spite of things silendy gone out of mind, and things violendy destroyed; die Poet binds togedier by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human...spread over the whole earth, and over all time». Paixào e Sabedoria — os sinais distintivos de toda a grande poesía, maior ou menor. TRAJETÓRIA...

...of differences of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed;...as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."74 I conclude that the power of the letters resides in the generation of feelings rich enough...

...person or story he elevates to a higher level by universalising the subject. According to Wordsworth, "the poet binds together by passion and knowledge...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time." KSS blends with his emotions the philosophy of the land he belongs to and makes his compositions very...

...visible friend and hourly companion." Moreover, "The objects of the Poet's thoughts are everywhere," even "though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favourite guides." The man of science, Wordsworth implied, is absolutely confined to the understanding...

...of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things gone silently out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. What Wordsworth did here is as ingenious and disfiguring as Sidneys transmutation of Plato. By imagining...