 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, similar to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 sivua
...permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must contest myself with a gen:ral Summary. PREFACE. svil I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...feelings. It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquilKty ; the emotion is contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that Poetry is the spontaneous overflow...contemplated till by a species of reaction the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow...till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 sivua
...will not permit me to enter upon this subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. 1 have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow...till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, nnd an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation,... | |
 | 1840 - 522 sivua
...attempt at imitation must necessarily fail. Wordsworth (Preface to 'Lyrical Ballads') says, 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ;...recollected in tranquillity. The emotion is contemplated until by a species of reaction the tranquillity gvndually disappears, and an emotion kindred to that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 sivua
...limits will not permit me to enter upon tins subject, and I must content myself with a general summary. I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : it takes its origin from emotiom recollected in tranquillity : the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of re-action,... | |
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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity : the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of re-action, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion,... 
