 | Christoph Irmscher - American poetry - 1992 - 414 pages
...handele es sich um eine chemische Substanz, deren Art und Dosierung der Autor genau zu kalkulieren habe: "an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far ... that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a poet may rationally... | |
 | John Gross - Literary Collections - 1992 - 340 pages
...syntax and grammar and shape the language anarchically". In fact, like Wordsworth he makes his own "selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation", even though in low-lying Alexandria these townsmen are not elevated by "the mountain's outline and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...and Other Poems (1802) [Wordsworth's notes have been incorporated into the text in square brackets.] The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted...pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems:... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee - Art - 1994 - 224 pages
...Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads that his object in the volume had been to fit "to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation" (pp. 15-16). 5. Given as the Karl Reinhard edition in 2 vols. (Gottingen, 1796) in The Letters of William... | |
 | G. Kim Blank - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 284 pages
...nonsignification could be bridged by thinking "long and deeply," by looking "steadily at... [the] subject," "by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," by adopting "the very language of men," by bringing "language near to the language of men," by using... | |
 | Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 388 pages
...first description of his experiment, in the opening paragraph of the preface, speaks of the poems as "fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." The word "fit," which occurs several times in the preface,2 thus in the poem takes on the double meaning... | |
 | Meinhard Winkgens - Didactic fiction, English - 1997 - 452 pages
..."Preface" von 1800 für die Orientierung einer experimentell zu erneuernden Dichtungssprache an der "selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid Sensation", die aus Gründen der Natürlichkeit, Ursprünglichkeit, Emotionalität und unelaborierten Expressivität... | |
 | Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - Fiction - 2000 - 338 pages
...contrasting values placed on literary tradition by Wordsworth's insistence in the 'Preface' on adopting 'a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation' (LB, p. 241), and the concern expressed in his letter to De Quincey about the 'proper influence of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 754 pages
...[The second edition, with an additional volume and the preface, was published in 1800. — 18£] \ [" The first volume of these Poems has already been submitted...and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which $ Poet may rationally endeavor to impart." Preface P. "W. ii. p. 303. — Ed.~\ § [In illustration... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 248 pages
...William Wordsworth announced his Romanticist revolution in his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" as "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." Ezra Pound launched his Modernist experiments by denouncing the nineteenth century as a "rather blurry,... | |
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I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally... 
