 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 Atlantic Monthly - Страница 1261906Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1799 - 614 страници
...written, as he informs us in the advertisement prefixed, 'chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...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,... | |
 | 1799 - 618 страници
...written, as he informs us in the advertisement prefixed, ' chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to tiic purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we have been extremely entert.iincd with the fancy, the facility,... | |
 | 1816 - 802 страници
...(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... | |
 | 1904 - 926 страници
...poet declared that the majority of the "Lyrical Ballads" "were written chiefly to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." Wordsworth's experiment failed; or rather it was never carried out. When once he had owned that metre... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 страници
...For the public were informed that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took fire, that is, all who condescended to notice... | |
 | 1851 - 650 страници
...For the public were informed that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...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 страници
...in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...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 - 346 страници
...in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...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 страници
...in one volume, warned the reader that " they were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower...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 - 1878 - 286 страници
...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... | |
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