...unfolding of his mind." He found in these poems, at a time when they were abused in high places, ' the ray of a new morning, and an absolute revelation...power and beauty, as yet unsuspected amongst men.' For both Wordsworth and Coleridge he conceived an admiration which amounted to religious reverence....

...', a new gospel of life to men of Wordsworth's generation and the next. De Quincey found in them ' an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds teeming...with power and beauty as yet unsuspected amongst men '. And John Stuart Mill has told how the chance reading of Wordsworth's poems wrought in him ' something...

...Allsop, October 8, 1822. was the greatest event in the unfolding of his own mind. He found in them " an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming...power and beauty, as yet unsuspected amongst men." So deep did they sink into his over-sensitive soul that for several years he could not bring himself...

...mind. He was the restorer of " elementary power, and of a higher and transcendent truth of nature," " the ray of a new morning and an absolute revelation...power and beauty, as yet unsuspected amongst men," the explorer of the " awful realities which surround the mind." 2 De Quincey entered eagerly into his...

...to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in these poems ' the ray of a new morning ',...entirely unconnected with myself, and not even known to 20 me until ten years later, received the same startling and profound impressions from the same volume....

...upon De Quincey, when still a young man, transcended the effect of or/ dinary poetry, and became " an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with power and beauty, as yet unsuspected among men." It was the desire to know the man who had written such poetry which arrested and enthralled...

...made upon De Quincey, when still a young man, transcended the effect of ordinary poetry, and became " an absolute revelation of untrodden worlds, teeming with power and beauty, as yet unsuspected among men." It was the desire to know the man who had written such poetry which arrested and enthralled...

...to accomplish of contumely and ridicule before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in these poems ' the ray of a new morning ',...entirely unconnected with myself, and not even known to 20 me until ten years later, received the same startling and profound impressions from the same volume....

...of contumely and ridicule, before they could rise into their present estimation — I found in their poems ' the ray of a new morning' and an absolute...worlds, teeming with power and beauty as yet unsuspected among men." These are the words of De Quincey. Now we think it a very remarkable fact, and one to which,...

...Autobiography (Works, II, 139) he says that soon after the publication of the Lyrical Ballad's "he found in these poems 'the ray of a new morning,' and...of untrodden worlds teeming with power and beauty yet unsuspected amongst men." But in September 1798, De Quincey would have been hardly more than thirteen....