...occupations are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly, because in that situation the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language too of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects,...

...necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended, and are more durable; and, lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects,...

...necessary character of rural occupations are more easily comprehended, and are more durable ; and lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are...incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms o? nature." Now it is clear to .Tie, that in the most interesting of the * [In the last edition of...

...aesthetic sensibility analogous to that which Wordsworth had described in 1800 as a condition in which 'the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature'. Book XII can therefore be read as a more focused account of Wordsworth's growing concern with the poetic...

..."hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived"; the "passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature" (WP i: 124, my emphases). The human mind brings its own innate structure and qualities to bear on what...

...occupations are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly, because in that situation the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.'2 I know this conjunction of texts is intolerable. "The necessary character of rural occupations...

...necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lastly, because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language, too, of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects,...

...necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and lasdy, because in that condition the passions of men are...with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language, too, of these men is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects,...

...flute. There is a world of difference between "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and holding that "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." What kind of symbols can we expect from poetry that promises such plain speaking? After all, the 1802...

...vanity" of the aristocracy, is "in the most natural state," a state in which, as Wordsworth would add, "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature."75 Here and indeed throughout the "Preface" — and in exactly the same way we have already...