...with them a purpose. If this opinion is erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : and though 65 this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects...

...with them a purpose. If this opinion is erroneous, I can have little right to the name of a poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : and though 65 this be true, poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects...

...the proper subject of poetry.22 AH good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; but though this be true, Poems to which any value can...sensibility had also thought long and deeply. For our continual influxes of feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts.-2 And, since this is true,...

...precious for the light it throws on the psychology of the creative writer. ' All good poetry ', he says, ' is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings :...possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, has also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by...

...precious for the light it throws on the psychology of the creative writer. ' All good poetry ', he says, ' is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:...possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, has also thought long and deeply. For our continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by...

...them a purpose. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful...continued influxes of feeling are modified and directed by 1 It is worth while here to observe, that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed...

...arises out of thought. "For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ; but though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached, were never produced but by a man who being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply."...

...we should remember and give due weight to Wordsworth's elongated and emphatic dependent clause: "but though this be true, Poems to which any value can...organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply" (Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1800], Prose, I, 126). Chapter 2. The Second Renaissance 1. The most valuable...

...overflow of powerful feelings," but this definition must be qualified, because the poet must also have thought "long and deeply," for "our continued influxes...and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representations of all our past feelings."30 Thus the poet avoids simple, commonplace sensationalism...

...borrowings from them. It was not for nothing, after all, that he had remarked in the Preface of 1802, "Poems to which any value can be attached, were never...organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply." Some of the more important sources from which he borrowed— and which he interwove— were prose,...