...It is important here to repeat the last few phrases already quoted from Wordsworth's famous Preface: "The manners of rural life germinate from those elementary...passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful arid permanent forms of nature." If Mr. Masefield had written this preface for The Daffodil Fields,...

...simplicity, and, consequently, may be more 25 accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those...durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the pas30 sions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forma of nature. The language,...

...elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity . . . and lastly, because in that situation the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature."39 In his note to The Thorn (1800), Wordsworth elaborated further this central emphasis on...

...the third edition of 1802, Wordsworth describes how the poems were written about subjects in which "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature" (Wordsworth, 1984/1802, p. 597). See Drabble (1985) for pointers to principal Romantic authors in English,...

...diurnal course / With rocks and stones and trees," the Lucy poems show with terrifying literalness how "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." Following to the letter the prescriptions of the Preface intended to ground poetry in the common and...

...feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated; and, from the necessary character of rural occupations,...passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful forms of nature. The language, too, of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be...

...simplicity", reaching the conclusion about this simple rural life that it was chosen as a subject for poetry "because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature". (PW II p.386-387) It is this principle that Wordsworth formulates later in the foreword by using the...

...greater simplicity and consequently may be more accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those...and are more durable; and lastly, because in that situation the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The...

...greater simplicity and consequently may be more accurately contemplated and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those...and are more durable; and lastly, because in that situation the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The...

...simplicity, and consequently may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated ; because the manners of rural life germinate from those...incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms o? nature." Now it is clear to .Tie, that in the most interesting of the * [In the last edition of...