...And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. • "The appropriate business of poetry," says Wordsworth, "her privilege, and her duty, is to treat of things...they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as tlvsy seem to exist to the senses and passions."3 Since genuine emotions arc often founded upon fancies,...

...operates with peculiar force. EThe appropriate business of poetry, (which, never1 theless, ngenuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate...things not as they are, but as they appear; not as 1 10 they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions) What a...

...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them...

...is the history or science of feelings.' ‘The appropriate business of poetry,' he says elsewhere, ‘(which nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but ailiey seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions.' The psychological aspect of the several Ballads,...

...rubber tree. " Wordsworth may after all assist us here — "The appropriate business of poetry ... is to treat of things not as they are but as they...seem to exist to the senses and to the passions." And the illusion in question is really, for many persons, an illusion of sense. It is curious to observe...

...chiefly proceed ; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them...

...virtue in an almost ; and (2) that it is the business of poetry to represent things 'not as they nre, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they teem to exist to the senses and to the passions ' (WORDSWORTH, Essay Supplementary to Preface, 1815)....

...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to...

...to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of 327 delusion does this acknowledged obligation prepare for the inexperienced ! what temptations to go astray are here held forth for them whose thoughts have been little disciplined by the understanding, and whose feelings revolt from...

...as Wordsworth himself has denned the function of the poet : — The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, isto treat of things not as they are, but as they appear, not as they exist in themselves, but as they...