 | Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, III - 1996 - 564 էջ
..."important event" in his life. 83 What made Wordsworth's poems "a medicine for my state of mind," he said, "was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...culture of the feelings, which I was in quest o f "84 T ne delights of reading Wordsworth reassured him that human beings had access to a "source of... | |
 | John Wyatt - 1995 - 300 էջ
...Lyrical Ballads of 1802. Mill says that Wordsworth's poem in the two-volume edition of 1815 expressed 'states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty'. Wordsworth's language had seeped into the philosopher's language and, without precisely knowing how... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 էջ
...modesty. No less impressive was John Stuart Mill in his Autobiography (1873): What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of. That too is a remarkable statement: poems as medicine for the mind, as healing. And there is the confidence... | |
 | David Lyons - 1997 - 216 էջ
...pleasure which real landscapes did not. This pleasure did not result jusi ;om an image but from arousing "states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty."42 According to Mill, poetry depicts and addresses itself to feelings. If it depicts outward... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 էջ
...Giaours, or the sullenness of his Laras'. It was Wordsworth's poetry, writes Mill, which brought him 'the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of. Where Byron offered passionate excitement and Goethe renunciation, Wordsworth provided for Arnold a... | |
 | James S. Taylor - 1998 - 224 էջ
...pleasurable suspectibilities, the love of rural objects and natural scenery. . . . 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,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 444 էջ
...utilitarians emphasized. Especially important for Mill's recovery was the poetry of Wordsworth, because it "expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty" (Autobiography, pp. 141—151). This regard for internal culture and the value of emotions for a balanced... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 376 էջ
...pleasure which real landscapes did not. This pleasure did not result just from an image but from arousing "states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty."42 According to Mill, poetry depicts and addresses itself to feelings. If it depicts outward... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell - 2000 - 446 էջ
...event" in his life (149). What made Wordsworth's poems "a medicine for my state of mind," he said, "was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty,...culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of." The delights of reading Wordsworth reassured him that human beings had access to a "source of inward... | |
 | David I. Kertzer, Marzio Barbagli - 2001 - 482 էջ
...the greatest among the English romantic poets. He describes this as follows: 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.56 Romanticism generated a new sensibility towards childhood. It implied a sanctification of childhood... | |
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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. 
