 | John Morley - 1923 - 450 էջ
...has described how important an event in his life was his first reading of Wordsworth. ' What made his poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. I needed to be made to feel that there was real permanent happiness in tranquil contemplation. Wordsworth... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 էջ
...Wordsworth, and a very second-rate landscape does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings,... | |
 | Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - 1927 - 540 էջ
...den virkning Wordsworths dikt utøvet over ham i en kritisk krise i hans liv: «What made Wodsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...culture of the feelings which I was in quest of.» Han hadde lest Byron uten å motta noe dypere inntrykk, sier han. Scott gav bedre naturskildringer,... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 էջ
...they represented the interchange between nature and mind; or in Mill's associationist terms, because "they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling, under the excitement of beauty." Especially important was the Intimations Ode,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1873 - 372 էջ
...Wordsworth, and a very second rate landscape does it more effectually than any poet. What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought colored by feeling under the excitement of beauty * * From them I seemed to learn what would be the... | |
 | Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 էջ
...experience. The poetry of Wordsworth answered to his condition. He writes: 'What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they...very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of ... he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures . . . But unpoetical natures are precisely... | |
 | Peter Abbs - 1987 - 248 էջ
...the need of a fuller integration ot personality. Of his finding of the poems of Wordsworth, he wrote that: . . . they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of. l* What these reflections of Darwin and of Mill show us is something absolutely vital to the conception... | |
 | Susan Mendus, Jane Rendall - 1989 - 276 էջ
...depression partly by reading the poems of Wordsworth, which appealed powerfully to his emotions and expressed 'not mere outward beauty, but states of...thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty'.26 His emergence from the mental crisis brought with it a reluctance to place total faith in... | |
 | Wendy Donner - 1991 - 244 էջ
...of beauty. It was not the use of scenes of nature in themselves that was most valuable, but the fact that "they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty" (1:151). power of correcting overintellectualization, of nurturing a balanced or whole person who can... | |
 | Edwin Webb - 1992 - 184 էջ
...poems of William Wordsworth. What made those poems a medicine for his state of mind, he wrote: . . . was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...They seemed to be the very culture of the feelings I was in quest of.2 If education fails to take account of the need to recognize the primacy of human... | |
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What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty. 
