...and power of a great revelation. 'The moment was important in my poetical history; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by poets of any age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply,...

...power of a great revelation. 'The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by poets of any age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply,...

...recorded, and kept a definite vow : he says that he was not more than fourteen when he first became aware of the infinite variety of natural appearances which...resolution to supply,. in some degree, the deficiency. 1 Other poets had lain in the lap of nature now and then, but Wordsworth would espouse her. He did...

...recorded, and kept a definite vow : he says that he was not more than fourteen when he first became aware of the infinite variety of natural appearances which...I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency.1 Other poets had lain in the lap of nature now and then, but Wordsworth would espouse her....

...recorded, and kept a definite vow : he says that he was not more than fourteen when he first became aware of the infinite variety of natural appearances which...age or country, so far as I was acquainted with them ; arid I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency.1 Other poets had lain in the...

...and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history ; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...have been at that time above fourteen years of age." 1 It is no exaggeration to say that in his first poem, which was drafted at school and completed at...

...recorded, and kept a definite vow : he says that he was not more than fourteen when he first became aware " of the infinite variety of natural appearances which...resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency." ' The quotation is from Wordsworth's note on An Evening Walk. One character of Fletcher's speaks of...

...WALK In his note on this poem, Wordsworth says that when not more than fourteen years old he had a "consciousness of the infinite variety of natural...country, so far as I was acquainted with them;" and that he "made a resolution to supply, in some degree, this deficiency." Actual and original observation...

...both simultaneously. Thus, Wordsworth, for instance, the high-priest of nature, would not only picture "the infinite variety of natural appearances which...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," but also express something of the ecstatic illumination that he felt flow in upon him from a spirit...

...; for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had bten unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as 1 was acquainted with them ; and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, this deficiency. To...