 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not,...neither feel nor understand. With this view I wrote the A ncicnt Mariner, and was preparing, among other poems, the Dark Ladie, and the Christabel, in which... | |
 | Glen Warren Bowersock, Walter Burkert, Michael C. J. Putnam - History - 1979 - 490 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not,...ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand."7 Coleridge's words, "feeling analogous to the supernatural," should remind us that Rudolf... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not,...not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. ...But the communication of pleasure may be the immediate object of a work not metrically composed;... | |
 | Arts - 1994 - 110 pages
...more suggestive in what it contributes to the myth of Wordsworth's "hostile takeover" of the project: With this view I wrote the "Ancient Mariner," and...preparing among other poems, the "Dark Ladie," and the "Christabel," in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal, than I had done in my first attempt.... | |
 | Basil Willey - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 310 pages
...but for which, in consequence of the veil of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes that see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand'. It was for the poet to be 'a priest to us all Of the wonder and bloom of the world'; through the deep... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...solicitude we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.2 With this view I wrote the "Ancient Mariner," and...preparing among other poems, the "Dark Ladie," and the "Christabel," in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal, than I had done in my first attempt.3... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 532 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not,...not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. Coleridge's formulation shows that much in Wordsworth that is not overtly religious may be deemed ancillary... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...every day" and thus "excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural." "With this view," he continues, "I wrote 'The Ancient Mariner,' and was preparing among other poems, 'The Dark Ladie,' and the 'Christabel,' in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal, than I had done in my first attempt."... | |
 | Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa - History - 1996 - 486 pages
...but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes that see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. (Coleridge 1975: 169) Something similar is happening in the philosophy of gender. Theorists of sexuality... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 618 pages
...world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not,...not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. Things did not work out as planned. Only The Ancient Mariner actually fulfilled Coleridge's intention.'... | |
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... things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for... 
