...in mind helps us to appreciate the polemical stance of Wordsworth's comparison of the immediacy of "the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him," to "The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician" and even "the Historian and Biographer," all...

...purposes and have referred to the third edition (of 1860), a favorite of some, when necessary. him. . . . The poet singing a song in which all human beings...join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as an invisible friend . . . The sum of what was said is, that the poet is chiefly distinguished from...

...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (ibid., pp. 872-73). 47. "The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (ibid., p. 881). 48. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (New York:...

...Science' (444). Scientists seek through their method 'truth as a remote and unknown benefactor', but the poet, 'singing a song in which all human beings...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion' (444). The Romantic poet knows better than to seek truth as an object, for it can be found only in...

...For the poet, truth is much closer at hand. "The poet, singing a song in which all human beings join him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. This truth is apprehended by emotions rather than reason. "All good poetry," Wordsworth famously declared,...