 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 страница
...whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and further, and above all,]7 to make these incidents and situations interesting...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Stuart Curran - 1990 - 280 страница
...selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," and it certainly serves to illustrate "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" (Prose, I, 118, 122, 124). If in this hymn Wordsworth reveals himself more interested in adducing a... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - 1988 - 524 страница
...grounded his poetry in Associationalist psychology. He talks of "certain known habits of association," of "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement," and takes as his poetry's task "to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 1989 - 236 страница
...various 'incidents and situations from common life'] . . . the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" (Pref., 447). The poet seeks to reveal how and what, given our shared nature, we think and feel in... | |
 | Syndy M. Conger - 1990 - 248 страница
...men" to the problem of giving interest to incidents drawn from "common life" by "tracing in them . . . the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as...the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement."38 Wordsworth moves from a specific social experiment to a psychological generality: the... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 страница
...others to similar thoughtful study. Wordsworth presents his poetry as " an experiment " that traces " the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" as those laws reveal themselves in the utterances of subjects chosen from "low and rustic life" (LB... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 страница
...as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
 | Yopie Prins, Maeera Shreiber - 1997 - 396 страница
...own operations: it studies as well as provokes emotion. The product of a meditative mind, it traces "the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as far as...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement" so that the reader can in turn make sensation the subject of thought (in Wordsworth and Coleridge 1969:156).... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 страница
...us, are the poetic description of ordinary reality and the dramatic presentation of human psychology, 'the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement' ( WProse, I:1zz- 4); and these depend upon 'the affectionate Love of Nature & Natural Objects' and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 страница
...as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the... | |
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... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the... 
