...Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency.'*' I would argue that it is no coincidence that the lines that Wordsworth singled out as, in effect, the...

...Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment is important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...deficiency. I could not have been at that time above 14 years of age."23 The very large number of his borrowings elsewhere in the poem shows that many poets...

...as if the moment inaugurated a poetic life with the force of religious conversion: 'I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country . . . and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency' (Fenwick, 6, 7). It is a realist...

...both simultaneously. Thus, Wordsworth, for instance, the high-priest of nature, would not only picture "the infinite variety of natural appearances which...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," but also express something of the ecstatic illumination that he felt flow in upon him from a spirit...

...Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...have been at that time above fourteen years of age.' [The] black fir mingles with the plain; While hills o'er hills in gradual pride 115 That swell'd along...

...lines" (213—14). "The moment," he explains, "was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by poets of any age or country, as far as I was acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply...

...Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply in during the first two college vacations after Waving revised from Moving I left revised to after my...

...dark outline of an oak against the western sky; and he says that he was at that moment struck with "the infinite variety of natural appearances which...unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," so far as he was acquainted with them, and "made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." He spent...

...Ambleside and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency. (PW, 1.318-19) By "the infinite variety of natural appearances" Wordsworth means, I believe, what might...