 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,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 1131897Full view - About this book
 | 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 empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth"; he does "not write for poets alone, but for men"), these implications... | |
 | William G. Rowland - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 254 pages
...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, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time" (Prose 1 :141) . In those "things silently... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 330 pages
...their better interests. The poet, Wordsworth says, "is the rock of defence for human nature"; the poet "binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time" (326). We all apparently need poetry to be... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...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, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. (PrW, i: 141) This assertion of great distress... | |
 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...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, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time" (PrWl 141). This is not to say, however, that... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...and love ... 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. (Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1 802) We, 'ell before the actual publication date of the two-volume second... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1999 - 330 pages
...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, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."74 I conclude that the power of the letters... | |
 | Vennelaṇṭi Prakāśam - Culture - 1999 - 186 pages
...story he elevates to a higher level by universalising the subject. According to Wordsworth, "the poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time." KSS blends with his emotions the philosophy... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of Science ... The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."37 Severing the values of art from all interests... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...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, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the Poet's thoughts are every... | |
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