...In Shelley's 'Defence of Poetry' the poet is no longer seen as Wordsworth's common man, who, Ringing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion'. Shelley's poet, struggling to eternise the transient visitations of supernatural power, is a nightingale...

...echoe Wordsworth's belief expressed about a century before in the following words : The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge .... ("Preface" to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth,...

...position goes beyond Voltaire's. Wordsworth's equally famous effusion can be interpreted similarly: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science."29 This opinion of Wordsworth's was arrived at from the bleak view...

...imagination to the aid of reason." There is the oft-quoted passage from Wordsworth: "The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in solitude. The poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence...

...in the spirit of life that is in him..., singing a song in which all human beings join with him ... in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (LB 255—59). Though de Man's selections from The Prelude have emphasized the reflective moments of...

...edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1800 Wordsworth contrasted the 'Man of Science' with the Poet. The first, he wrote, 'seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude'; the second sings 'a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as...

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...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (p. 253). (I owe the reference to this passage [and, indeed, many other good things] to my colleague...

...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.fi The poet's knowledge, Wordsworth argues, is a 'necessary', 'natural', 'inalienable' fact...

...Poetry deals directly with human relations; science is only indirectly involved: "The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet . . . rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (Prose 1: 141)....