 Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5351834Full view - About this book
 | Robert Young, Kah Choon Ban, Robbie B. H. Goh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 190 pages
...in popular literature (167). The Lyrical Ballads, similarly, are seen as an attempt "to excite the feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom" (169). For both writers, then, the critical or self-conscious mind delivers society from the evils... | |
 | Adela Pinch - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 272 pages
...instance of what Coleridge said Wordsworth's contributions to the Lyrical Ballads were to achieve: "to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural,...mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us."34 But to figure the power of... | |
 | Seamus Perry - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 330 pages
...least romantic', about whom he would win 'a human interest and a semblance of truth', and Wordsworth 'to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day', and so (as I have quoted already) to reawaken the reader 'to the loveliness and the wonders of the wotld... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 pages
...shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelieP' (6). Wordsworth, on the other hand, was "to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,...the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom" (7). The Lyrical Ballads, however brilliant a demonstration of poetic imagination, was not without... | |
 | Robert Detweiler, David Jasper - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 212 pages
...classicism and stylization of the eighteenth century. Coleridge described Wordsworth's contribution as "to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,...the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom." In his 1800 preface to the poems, Wordsworth himself states his intention "to follow the fluxes and... | |
 | Martin Travers - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 372 pages
...that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his...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... | |
 | Hans Werner Breunig - English literature - 2002 - 356 pages
...Bewusstseinszustand erlangt werden, in dem ein 1 STC, Biographia Literaria, vol. II, 6f (169): "Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his...mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us." 2 Vgl. N. Fruman, "Coleridge's... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 pages
...suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other band, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of everyday, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention... | |
 | Carol Kyros Walker, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 222 pages
...that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his...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... | |
 | Riccardo Dottori - Logic - 2003 - 452 pages
...above quotations are taken: Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his subject to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,...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... | |
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