 The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves,...  Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ... - Page 343by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert Murray - Comparative literature - 1927 - 294 pages
...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem *'i exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world 01 delusion does this acknowledged obligation... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...they are, but as they might be, or ought to be. But to Wordsworth, the appropriate business of poetry is 'to treat of things not as they are . . , but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions,' and as worked upon 'in the spirit of genuine imagination.'... | |
 | Jacob Opper - Art and science - 1973 - 234 pages
...the first collected edition of his poems. Here he writes, "The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions" [Wordsworth's italics].46 This arresting declaration, it will be noticed, with its radical empiricism... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 472 pages
...life," he justifies his choice of subject matter. Even when he says that the duty of poetry is "to treat things not as they are, but as they appear, not as...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions," he defends the poet's emotion and transfiguration of reality and not psychological solipsism or illusionism,48... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 pages
...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to 29 exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - Literary Collections - 1989 - 246 pages
...appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science) ... is to treat of things not as they are, but as they...but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions."8 The courtesan Harriette Wilson's Memoirs of Herself and Others (1825) begins with an attempt... | |
 | Victor Terras - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 584 pages
...the romantic view of Wordsworth that the task of poetry is "to treat of things not as they are, hut as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." His love for Finland is especially evident in the narrative poem Eda (1824), ahout a local girl who... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 294 pages
...phenomenology of the poet should also be the phenomenology of the scientist, that both have a duty "to treat things not as they are, but as they appear, not as...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions" (3:63, original emphasis).23 That dissection is not necessarily a fetish for "things as they are,"... | |
 | Susan Glickman - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 234 pages
...Supplementary to the Preface" to his 1815 Poetical Works when he declares that the business of poetry "is to treat of things not as they are, but as they...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." Prose Works, 3:63. Paul de Man has explored this aspect of Romantic nature imagery at some length,... | |
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