 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
 | Roni Natov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 320 pages
...willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . [Wordsworth was] to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,...the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention to the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us —... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 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...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... | |
 | Anthony Rudd - Philosophy - 2003 - 284 pages
...record and to incite. Coleridge described Wordsworth's contributions to the Lyrical Ballads as aiming "to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural,...mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing us to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us." 16 This concern to see the world... | |
 | Christopher John Murray - Art - 2004 - 664 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. Coleridge's magnificently haunting... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...principle or cause in a work of such pure Imagination'.9 Wordsworth wrote poems of common life to add 'the charm of novelty to things of every day, and...the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom' (BL, II: 7). Lyrical Ballads concluded with 'Tintern Abbey', written in July 1798 after the contents... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 542 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...object, to give the charm of novelty to things of everyday, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural 20 In fulfillment of this joint project,... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 400 pages
...religious belief, as Coleridge described it — to give the charm of novelty to things of everyday, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural,...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... | |
 | Clark Davis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 212 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... | |
 | Paul Dawson - Education - 2005 - 268 pages
...give a 'semblance of truth' (169) to 'persons and characters supernatural' (168), Wordsworth's was 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' (169). By consciously using... | |
 | D. J. Moores - Mysticism in literature - 2006 - 260 pages
...According to Coleridge in Biographia Literaria, moreover, Wordsworth's specific task in Lyrical Ballads was '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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