 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 676 էջ
...him a medicine which reacted upon both the mind and feelings, because of their power of expressing not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and...thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.1 But when all is said, the best soporifics are long draughts of erudition weighted with pedantry,... | |
 | Manuel García Pazos - 1999 - 268 էջ
...Gefühlskultur, sie wirkten auf ihn nach eigener Aussage wie eine Arznei: „What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not merely outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement... | |
 | David Castronovo - 2004 - 216 էջ
...depression lifted when he discovered the inner sense of Wordsworth's poetry. "What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty." Hard as it is to think of human feeling as a news item at the millennium — after nearly two hundred... | |
 | Roland Kroemer - 2004 - 598 էջ
...Wordsworth in 182.8. The unexpected therapeutic results were enduring and profound. "What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind was that they...feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling under the influence of beauty" (125). From Wordsworth, the intensely subjective, sometimes hyperemotional poet,... | |
 | Roberto Franzosi - 2004 - 506 էջ
...(1976, p. 10). "Wordsworth's poems," acknowledged Mill, the one-time enemy of poetry, "expressed, not outward beauty but states of feeling, and of thought...coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty" (Mill, 1981, p. 150). True. The work of the scientist is doomed to early death. Weber and Merton do... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 էջ
...pleasurable susceptibilities, 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. ... In them I seemed to draw from a source of inward... | |
 | Maria H. Morales - 2005 - 216 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... | |
 | Colin Heydt - 2006 - 175 էջ
...one well-noted discussion, he tells how he found a solution in Wordsworth's poetry, which presented 'not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling'. It was 'the very culture of the feelings, which I was in quest of. In them [Wordsworth's poems] I seemed... | |
 | Laura J. Snyder - 2010 - 386 էջ
...Wordsworth for the first time, which he did in 1828. He later explained that "what made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed . . . states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling. . . . They seemed to be the very culture... | |
 | Frederic Ewen - 2007 - 589 էջ
...poets now supplied that "culture of feelings" which Mill had been seeking, by presenting him not with "mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of...thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty."8 He reached out for aesthetic satisfactions of which he had been hitherto deprived; for many... | |
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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. 
