...Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by What is a Poet ? He is a man speaking to men : a man endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind. WORDSWORTH'S "Preface to Lyrical Ballads." PREFACE. The present volume has two distinct aims. It includes,...

...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 tenderness,...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...

...of sight the need of emotion. Wordsworth puts this first. The poet, he says, is a man " endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...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...

...Poet. " All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. "A poet is a man endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind. " The object of poetry is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing...

...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 tenderness,...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...

...speaking to men, .... endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasn and tenderness, who hps 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...

...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 tenderness,...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...

...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 and tenderness,...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...

...surelier based than on a ready command of beautiful and appropriate speech. The poet, he says, is a man " who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a...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...

...the poet seer, fulfilling accurately Wordsworth's definition of a poet as one who is ' endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind,' yet he was not a poet only. In fact, as a recent writer has pointed out,1 Dante as a poet is sometimes...