...absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real...from the motions of their own minds merely, other men arc accustomed to feel in themselves : — whence, and from practice, he has acquired a greater readiness...

...absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real...accustomed to feel in themselves; whence, and from practise, he has acquired a greater readiness and power in expressing what he thinks and feels, and...

...himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real events, yet ... do more nearly resemble the passions produced by real...readiness and power in expressing what he thinks and feels (Prose Works 1:138) 13. These lines were removed from The Excursion in 1827. They can be found in the...

...not find them"; he is "affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present"; and "he has acquired a greater readiness and power in expressing what he thinks and feels" (Wordsworth 1984, 600, 603-4). This is a tall order to live up to, as is his main tenet in the Preface—that...

...absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indced far from being the same as those produced by real...merely, other men are accustomed to feel in themselves. (PrW, 1:138) The undeniably supplementary relation of the poetic sign to the affective culture of "rustic...

...absent things as if they were present, (1 1) with greater ability to conjure up apparently real passions "than anything which, from the motions of their own...merely, other men are accustomed to feel in themselves," (12) a "greater readiness and power in expressing what he thinks and feels," and (13) especially such...

...absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real...resemble the passions produced by real events, than any thing which, from the motions of their own minds merely, other men are accustomed to feel in themselves;...

...those felt by the common man. The logic is tricky: The poet can "conjure" in himself passions that are "far from being the same as those produced by real events" yet "do more nearly resemble the passions produced by real events" than those that "other men are accustomed...

...speaking to men," is said to possess "an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real events, yet ... do more nearly resemble the passions produced by real events" (Prose, 1:138). Wordsworth's allowance...

...absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real...resemble the passions produced by real events, than any thing which, from the motions of their own minds merely, other men are accustomed to feel in themselves;...