...universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess 85 A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets: upon me bestow A gift of genuine...may shine, Shedding benignant influence, and secure, 90 Itself, from all malevolent effect Of those mutations that extend their sway Throughout the nether...

...who possesses " a metropolitan temple in the heart of mighty poets," would descend upon him also : " Upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight ; that my...that extend their sway Throughout the nether sphere." l A rich answer was vouchsafed, with the result that we have in his works a conception of Nature that...

...universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess 85 A metropolitan Temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets; upon me bestow A gift of genuine...shine; Shedding benignant influence, — and secure, 90 Itself, from all malevolent effect Of those mutations that extend their sway Throughout the nether...

...Wordsworth. And here too. Wordsworth's deepest obsession as a monstrously strong poet is revealed: . . . that my Song With star-like virtue in its place may...that extend their sway Throughout the nether sphere! In a sonnet written two years later, addressed to Milton, the precursor is described as Wordsworth...

...'Prospectus' to The Recluse, which was printed at the beginning of The Excursion, records Wordsworth's hope 'that my Song / With star-like virtue in its place may shine; / Shedding benignant influence' (88—90). By returning to this image at the very end of the poem, Wordsworth could implicitly figure...

...of universal earth. Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan Temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets; upon me bestow A gift of genuine...its place may shine; Shedding benignant influence, ..." These lines seem to hark back to the opening of The Prelude, to the scene of Wordsworth being...

...of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets: upon me bestow A gift of genuine...its place may shine Shedding benignant influence. . . . (83-90; WP 2:39-40) In keeping with Romantic and Emersonian duality, this shed light may have...

...universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and thou dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty poets: upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight; that my Song Wich star-like virtue in its place may shine ..."" demonstrieren die Wiederbelebung und Modernisierung...

...Alfoxden in the spring had hinted that he might look inwards before tackling his main theme: . . . And if with this I mix more lowly matter; with the thing Contemplated describe the Mind and the man Contemplating; and who, and what he was The transitory Being who beheld This vision; when and...

...the soul, in 1814 he asks for "A gift of genuine insight" so that his "Song" might secure "its place" "from all malevolent effect / Of those mutations that...extend their sway / Throughout the nether sphere!" (88-93). Like Locke and Hume, Wordsworth sets aside the mind's "mutations" within a "nether sphere."...