 The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion....  The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth - Side xviredigeret af - 2003 - 295 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
 | George J. Leonard - 1995 - 269 sider
...Wordsworth also admired science: The knowledge both of the poet and the Man of Science is pleasure. . . . Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. (WW, p. 738) 70. NS, pp. 67-68. The still-unknown Emerson wrote the little-known Carlyle, on 2 November... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 sider
...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.fi The poet's knowledge, Wordsworth argues, is a 'necessary', 'natural', 'inalienable' fact... | |
 | Regina Hewitt - 1997 - 254 sider
...to human affairs. Poetry deals directly with human relations; science is only indirectly involved: "The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...he cherishes and loves it in his solitude: the Poet . . . rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion" (Prose 1: 141).... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...Spring' And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. 12801 Lyrical Ballads - Preface 12802 Lyrical Ballads - Preface Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 sider
...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible and hourly companion. (396) Critics who portray Wordsworth as the prophet of the egotistical sublime,... | |
 | Horst Frenz - 1999 - 670 sider
...there a secret link between science and poetry? Perhaps there is. An English writer has said : < Poetry is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.) Whether these words apply to every science is open to question, but they do voice a very deep truth.... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 sider
...for poetry. Truth, he insisted, is no less, and even more, the province of poetry than of science. "The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor," while the poet "rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." Moreover,... | |
 | David Bell - 1999 - 248 sider
...period, and that internal reality is as significant as the external world and has its own validity. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; ... the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 sider
...acquisition, slow to come to us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, 'that he looks before and... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 sider
...society.36 Though it could not make anything in particular happen, poetry could be, for Wordsworth, "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of Science ... The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it... | |
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