The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. The Living Age - Page 3491904Full view - About this book
| 1799 - 614 pages
...xpcrimenis ; since they were written, as he informs us in the advertisement prefixed, 'chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we hnve been extremely entertained with the fancy, the facility, and (in general) the sentiments,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...(Murphy's Ed.) ix. 160. T0b U. T terest the human mind.":): Yet, surely, it will not follow tint " the language of conversation in the middle and lower...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." To afford pleasure, poetry must call imagination to the aid of reason : fancy must create, or at least... | |
| Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...new school of poetry. For the public were informed that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took h're, that is, all who condescended to notice... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 342 pages
...originally published in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...originally published in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - New England - 1876 - 346 pages
...originally published in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| William Angus Knight - England - 1878 - 286 pages
...Lyrical Ballads he says that his aim was " to ascertain how far the language and conversation of men in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure ;" and, in the second edition, he describes it as " an experiment." His own practice was better than... | |
| James Russell Lowell - English poetry - 1888 - 356 pages
...were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle anil lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 432 pages
...originally published in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." In his preface to the second edition, in two volumes, Wordsworth already found himself forced to shift... | |
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