 In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society,...  Poems - Page 381by William Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English poetry - 1919 - 376 pages
...soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs — in spite of things gone silently out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the poet...society, as it is spread over the whole earth and ov?r all time. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart... | |
 | Drama - 1919 - 694 pages
...losing. It is Wordsworth who gives us answer. He bids us turn to none other than the poet. Because "in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society." He is an "upholder and preserver." Ay, to such a pass have we now come that we discover that: we can... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - American literature - 1919 - 360 pages
...but he conceived a wide social activity for writers of verse. He foresaw that the Poet would " bind together by passion and knowledge the vast empire...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time." I suppose that in composing those huge works, so full of scattered beauties, but in their entirety... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere; on the poles of truth. To pass from theological and ph favorite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - Criticism - 1921 - 458 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...over all time. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favorite guides, yet he will follow... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 498 pages
...and socialist implications of Wordsworth's theory of the poet (an instigator of radical community, he "binds together by passion and knowledge the vast...human society, as it is spread over the whole earth"; he does "not write for poets alone, but for men"), these implications were drawn out by Shelley: "The... | |
 | William G. Rowland - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 254 pages
...and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time" (Prose 1 :141) . In those "things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed," Wordsworth... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 330 pages
...society. "In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs; in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed" (326), the poet binds people together. Wordsworth thus intends his deliberately prosaic, minimalistic... | |
 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...implies: "In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time" (PrWl 141). This is not to say, however, that Wordsworth's formula represses history or evades politics.... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...12.9-31) In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (PrW, i: 141) This assertion of great distress at the loss of a stable, meaningful field of reference... | |
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