Oh! when I have hung Above the raven's nest, by knots of grass And half-inch fissures in the slippery rock But ill sustained, and almost (so it seemed) Suspended by the blast that blew amain, Shouldering the naked crag, oh, at that time While on the perilous... National Review - Seite 241857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 Seiten
...English Romantic poets whose ears were highly receptive to any vibrations or music that reached them. 'With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind / Blow through my ears', 'I heard among the solitary hills / . . . sounds / of undistinguishable motion', 'Then sometime,... | |
| Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - 1992 - 317 Seiten
...and almost, as it seemed, Suspended by the blast which blew amain, Shouldering the naked crag, oh, at that time, While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,...strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ears! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth, and with what motion moved the clouds! (Parrish, 1977, p.... | |
| W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 Seiten
...is similar to what is perceived in the hidden nook and by the pedlar. Its strangeness is emphasized: While on the perilous ridge I hung alone, With what...strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ears! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth. ... (lines 336-39) The perceiver's brain Worked with a dim... | |
| Stephen Gill - 1991 - 132 Seiten
...and almost, as it seemed, Suspended by the blast which blew amain, Shouldering the naked crag, oh, at that time While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,...strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ears; the sky seemed not a sky Of earth, and with what motion moved the clouds! (I, 333-50) The latter... | |
| Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 Seiten
...to the limits of whatever familiar language it is tempted to employ and to trust without question. "With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind / Blow through my ear!" exclaims Wordsworth in The Prelude (1.337-38). The Romantic mind strives to tune the ear to strange... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 Seiten
...ill-sustained, and almost (so it seemed) Suspended by the blast that blew amain, Shouldering the naked crag, oh, at that time While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,...sky Of earth and with what motion moved the clouds! 340 Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship... | |
| Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 Seiten
..."eternal things" - has been shown already in the episode of the raven's nest: While on the perilous edge I hung alone, With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ears. ... (ibid, 43-5) The grandeur of a beating heart will be seen almost at once in the furtive pleasure... | |
| Paul De Man, Andrzej Warminski - 212 Seiten
...Prelude, evoked the experience of dizziness and absolute fright in the amazing lines: "The sky was not a sky / Of earth, and with what motion moved the clouds!" Here, too, the sky is originally conceived as a roof or vault that shelters us, by anchoring us in... | |
| Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 Seiten
...slipp'ry rock, / But ill sustained." Again, the distant memory yields a crypto-poetic interest: oh at that time, While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,...strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ears. (P 1799, bk. i, ll. 62.-65; italics mine) And in the boating episode, perhaps the best known... | |
| William Heyen - 1998 - 196 Seiten
...sustained, and almost (so it seemed) Suspended by the blast that blew amain, Shouldering the naked crag, oh, at that time While on the perilous ridge I hung alone,...wind Blow through my ear! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth—and with what motion moved the clouds! Later in The Prelude, in one of the best-known lines... | |
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