...of all knowledge Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful f eeling .... What is a Poet ? A man endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind, a man who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him." a In the last words we...

...~poeT~liT true of the author: "What is a Poet? ... 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; . . . who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him." * It is because his experiences...

...from other people not in "land " but in "degree": 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...

...Wordsworth were forecasting the character of William James when he described the poet as "a man . . . 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...

..."Preface to the Lyrical Ballads:" What is a Poet? ... 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...

...himself? 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" ("Preface," 2:393). 14. Mary Shelley, "Author's Introduction to the Standard Novel's Edition [1831],"...

...And what language is to be expected from him? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, 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...

...nation." The writer has this power because he has, as Wordsworth says more particularly of the poet, "a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." The experience of the writer is not radically disjunctive from that of common humanity. It is simply...

...And what language is to be expected from him? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind . . .9 In each valediction, even, perhaps most of all in the ones intended to diminish or wound Williams,...

...from the scholar?" Wordsworth's very words come back to answer these questions: A scholar is someone "endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." The scholar "has acquired a greater readiness and power in expressing what he thinks and feels, and...