...implicit sociology of mournful community. Elegies, Epitaphs, and Legacies of Loss in Lyrical Ballads [T]he poet binds together by passion and knowledge...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. —Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) The writing for the first edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge's...

...differences of soil and climate. of language and manners. of laws and customs ... the Poet hinds together hy passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society....spread over the whole earth. and over all time."'' One may even point out that this grandiloquent statement of the powers of the poetic imagination runs...

...between the poet and the scholar exactly right when he holds, in the Preface of Lyrical Ballads, that 'the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society' (1927, p. 182). Certainly, in the study of childhood we are surely past imagining that there is a knowing...

...ultimately mind and nature are one and the same. The poet, armed with this immense power of Imagination, 'binds together by passion and knowledge the vast...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time' (444). He unifies all disparate entities, and his instrument - his verse - serves as 'the breath and...

...customs . . . of things gone silently out of mind and things violently destroyed . . . binds together the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."48 The Banks of Wye does not quite aspire to connect the entire known planet, but the various...

...relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and...is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. . . . Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. Unwilling...

...the preface to Lyrical Ballads, "in spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things...as it is spread over the whole earth and over all time."10 The very contemporary task of writing The Life of Charlotte Bronte left Gaskell much troubled...

...of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite of things gone silently out of mind and things violently destroyed, the Poet...as it is spread over the whole earth and over all time.15 Importantly, Wordsworth stresses the accessibility of customs to the poet and his possession...

...of the 'mother country,' "95 but a genuinely universal artist who, as Wordsworth grandly proclaims, "binds together by passion and knowledge the vast...as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."96 8 The Worth of Lyme J ANE AUSTEN WRITES ABOUT LYME REGIS WITH A SPECIFICITY QUITE NEW in her...

...a poet's function: "In spite of different soil and climate, language and manners, laws and customs, in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things violently destroyed, the poet binds together the vast empire of human society as it is spread over the whole earth and over time" (Beck, 1968)....