 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1928 - 406 pages
...Disgusted by the "gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers," he castigates poets who " separate themselves from the sympathies of men, and...tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation." Just as Blake turns from literary artifice to " Enthusiasm and Life," to Inspiration, to the inner... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...fickle tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation.1 I cannot, however, be insensible to the present outcry against the triviality and meanness,... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation.* I cannot, however, be insensible of the present outcry against the triviality and meanness both of... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...fickle tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation.8 I cannot, however, be insensible of the present outcry against the triviality and meanness... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation. [It is worthwhile here to observe that the affecting parts of Chaucer are almost always expressed in... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1998 - 238 pages
...unelaborated expressions', and when he attacks 'arbitrary and capricious habits of expression [that] furnish food for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation', he is setting his project apart from the manner of the Della Cruscans. The famous paragraph on 'the... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - 1997 - 322 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...fickle tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation."07 By eliminating artificial distinctions and focusing on the common, this new sort of poet... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 pages
...permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...tastes, and fickle appetites, of their own creation. The two other passages were added in the "Appendix" to the 1802 preface: The earliest Poets of all... | |
 | Michael Bell, Peter Poellner - 1998 - 272 pages
..."separate" nature of contemporary poetry. In his "Preface" to the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth criticizes: Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon...arbitrary and capricious habits of expression in order to fumish food for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation.14 Good poetry instead embodies... | |
 | Saree Makdisi - 1998 - 272 pages
...and art of the modern age, the "arbitrary and capricious habits of expression" by which modern poets "furnish food for fickle tastes and fickle appetites of their own creation." Thus the "gaudiness and inane phraseology" of the "frantic novels, sickly and stupid (Jerman tragedies,... | |
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Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon... 
