...loved to allude, is here echoing Wordsworth's own allusion to Milton (PL 7:31) in the "Prospectus" "'fit audience let me find though few!' / So prayed, more gaining than he asked, the Bard" (lines 23-24). The expansion from a minute to an immense audience was a phenomenon repeated in the...

...It also might explain the change from "one Life" in manuscript B to "law supreme" in manuscript D: Of joy in widest commonalty spread, Of the individual mind that keeps its own Inviolate retirement, and consists With being limitless the one great Life — I sing. (WHG,...

...soothes / Or elevates the mind' (760-761). It is a world Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations...moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in the widest commonalty spread; (767-771) It is, in short, cosmic consciousness - 'the law supreme /...

...changes "soul" to "Mind," anthropomorphizing the 'shadowy soul' as the "genuine [philosophic] insight" of "the individual Mind that keeps her own / Inviolate...supreme / Of that Intelligence which governs all" (88, 19-22). Instead of wedding heterogeneous "minds" to "this outward frame of things," Wordsworth...