 He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...  The Living Age - Page 3151904Full view - About this book
 | 1921 - 348 pages
...serene and amiable temperament. He answers well to Wordsworth's description of a poet as "a man endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul than are supposed to be common .among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - Future life - 1922 - 368 pages
...words to Paul is so exact and illuminating. The poet " is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Arthur Melville Clark - American poetry - 1922 - 92 pages
...have in himself the equivalent of generations. A poet, Wordsworth declared, was " a man — endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind." But if he shut himself up in the impenetrable walls of his own complacency, and scorn the very world... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Language and languages - 1922 - 300 pages
...men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who haa a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a, man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 492 pages
...and shedding the earth crumbs. A poet, says Wordsworth, 'is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind,' and it is precisely this endowment of tenderness that has led certain of the modern realists to penetrate... | |
 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...their forms. Wordsworth himself is described in his own words when he declares that the Poet is a man "endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." Furthermore, with all his attention to the external world and the unequalled accuracy of his account... | |
 | Heathcote William Garrod - Poets, English - 1923 - 252 pages
...men, it must be conceded that he makes as wide as he can the difference of degree. The poet is a man ' endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind . . . who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him ' ; a man ' habitually... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1924 - 636 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him ? — He is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the. spirit... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - Aesthetics - 1926 - 280 pages
...Wordsworth in his second preface to the Lyrical Ballads, " is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." 'The " more comprehensive soul " * is the root of the matter. The test of the poet, for the English... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...And what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit... | |
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