 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
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 532 pages
...poetic faith. Wordsworth's task was 'to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural': 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... | |
 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 pages
...of nature"; Poetical Works, II, 386-387. Coleridge described his purpose thus: "Mr Wordsworth . . . 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... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 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" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia... | |
 | George J. Leonard - Art - 1995 - 269 pages
...refining Lyrical Ballads, man's everyday was nature. "Mr. Wordsworth," Coleridge wrote of those poems, "was to propose to himself as his object, to give...awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom . . . the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude [whereby] we have eyes, yet see not, ears that... | |
 | Margery B. Franklin, Bernard Kaplan - Art - 1994 - 276 pages
...of normal adulthood (secondary autocentricity), Coleridge (1907) describes the proper goal of art as "to give the charm of novelty to things of every day,...mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us" (II, p. 6). Both Coleridge and... | |
 | Louise Chawla - Poetry - 1994 - 260 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...to give the charm of novelty to things of every day ... by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...Ballads as being to put commonplace truths in an interesting point of view or, in Coleridge's phrase, 'to give the charm of novelty to things of every day;...to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural' (BL, vol. n, p. 7). And it contests the implications of Johnson's view, expressed in the Life of Milton... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 618 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... | |
 | R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...to his own. Wordsworth's object, he tells us, is to give the charm of novelty to things of everyday, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural,...mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for... | |
 | Daniel Brudney - Philosophy - 1998 - 460 pages
...The goal of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge says, is "to give the charm of novelty to things of everyday, and 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."50 The aim of Carlyle's Professor... | |
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