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... nature , that is , to eternal nature , and the great moving spirit of things . He ought to travel before men occasionally as well as at their sides . ' ' Nature ' in the phrase ' poet of Nature ' can hardly be made to take on the force ...
... nature , that is , to eternal nature , and the great moving spirit of things . He ought to travel before men occasionally as well as at their sides . ' ' Nature ' in the phrase ' poet of Nature ' can hardly be made to take on the force ...
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... nature . He may have been a Romantic , ' but it would be misleading to think of him as an individualist . The implicit social and moral pre- occupation of his self - communings in solitude , his recol- lecting in tranquillity , is ...
... nature . He may have been a Romantic , ' but it would be misleading to think of him as an individualist . The implicit social and moral pre- occupation of his self - communings in solitude , his recol- lecting in tranquillity , is ...
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... natural wisdom turn our hearts away ; To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears ; And , feeding on disquiet , thus disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ? Wordsworth gladly acquiesced : That simple tale Passed from my ...
... natural wisdom turn our hearts away ; To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears ; And , feeding on disquiet , thus disturb The calm of nature with our restless thoughts ? Wordsworth gladly acquiesced : That simple tale Passed from my ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth