 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind 400 By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus... | |
 | Philip Hobsbaum - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 220 pages
...there are several Shakespeares. There is Wordsworth hortatory; being heard by the crowd, so to speak: Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought. There is Wordsworth, only a few lines further on in The Prelude, being narrative, telling a story:... | |
 | Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 318 pages
...unfortunate author, if it had remained in manuscript" (BL 1: 175) - he had excerpted a fragment he titled "Growth of Genius from the Influences of Natural Objects, on the Imagination in Boyhood, and Early Youth," part of "an unpublished Poem on the Growth and Revolutions of an Individual Mind, by WORDSWORTH" (CW4[1]:368).... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...an Orphic tale indeed, A tale divine of high and passionate thoughts To their own music chanted !* GROWTH OF GENIUS FROM THE INFLUENCES OF NATURAL OBJECTS...universe ! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought 1 And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion 1 not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...history he is relating in order to address Coleridge or, more commonly, a spirit or supernatural power ("Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought" [I.40I— 2]), is the most obviously dramatic of the strategies that he employs in his act of selfrepresentation.... | |
 | Barbara T. Gates - Literary Collections - 2002 - 700 pages
...tide. ARABELLA B. BUCKLEY. LONDON, November 1880. POPULARIZING SCIENCE — • 489 [pp. 1-13] CHAPTER I Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe! Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of Thought! And giv st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! — WORDSWORTH.' 1 wonder whether it ever... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...like it in Wordsworth's most studied poems, equally difficult and equally challenging. For example: 'Wisdom and spirit of the universe, / Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, / That giv'st to forms and images a breath / And everlasting motion' (now recognized as Prelude, 1805... | |
 | Nan Bauer Maglin, Alice Radosh - Business & Economics - 2003 - 398 pages
...more fully. Like Wordsworth in his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, I see and hear in nature the "Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe / Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, / That giv'st to forms and images a breath / And everlasting Motion!" (Book First, 11. 401-404). I... | |
 | J. Robert Barth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 180 pages
...us notice what follows the encounter: a reflection, a meditation, almost, one might say, a prayer. Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting Motion! not in vain, By day or star-light,... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...Lathrop, Memories of Hawthorne, 53). and Revolutions of an Individual Mind," the excerpt is titled "Growth of Genius from the Influences of Natural Objects, on the Imagination in Boyhood, and Early Youth," and prefaced by Coleridge with a three-line epigraph from his own poem "To William Wordsworth." Those... | |
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Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions... 
