...Mineralogists,' but passes beyond them to herald the poetry of machinisme and the industrial revolution. 'If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution ... in our condition,' the poet 'will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects...

...(Wake, p. 539), one wonders if Joyce remembered the words of Wordsworth's Preface when he suggests: If the labours of men of science should ever create...revolution, direct or indirect in our condition, and in the impression that we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be...

...his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men of Science should ever create...the Poet will sleep then no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of Science, not only in those general indirect...

...of science: Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men of Science should ever create...impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of Science . . . [and]...

...to look beyond the science of his day to a more precise and less rigid acquaintance with the w:orld: "If the labours of men of science should ever create...the Poet will sleep then no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect...

...Wordsworth published his "Preface," he could begin a sentence with a most instructive conjunction: "IF the labours of Men of science should ever create...indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions we habitually receive. ..." Such an IF made sense in 1800, and it stands where it does like a pillar...

..."Preface to Lyrical Ballads," to continue by making the wish that science be transformed into poetry: "If the labours of Men of science should ever create...and in the impressions which we habitually receive," then the poet "will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science... carrying sensation into the...

...famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth is at some pains to reconcile science and poetry: "If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution ..., the Poet will be at [their] side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of science...

...will? In the past, science and technology were loudly hailed by the poets. In 1805 Wordsworth wrote: If the labours of men of science should ever create...impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those...

...his notion of poetry with modern science, and it is the concept of revolution that supplies the link: If the labours of Men of Science should ever create any material revolution ... in our condition, . . . the Poet will sleep then no more than at present, but he will be ready...