 If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps...  American Quarterly Review - Page 508edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - Poetry - 1925 - 346 pages
...of sensation in which to move his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men...the poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects,... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1915 - 550 pages
...of sensation in which to move his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men...the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects,... | |
 | University of Chicago - 1917 - 370 pages
...first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of the man of science should ever create any material revolution,...the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science .... carrying sensation into the midst of... | |
 | Joseph Ronsley - Literary Collections - 1977 - 344 pages
...(Wake, p. 539), one wonders if Joyce remembered the words of Wordsworth's Preface when he suggests: If the labours of men of science should ever create...revolution, direct or indirect in our condition, and in the impression that we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be... | |
 | Donald Ahern, Robert Shenk - Education, Humanistic - 1984 - 128 pages
...consciousness the piecemeal findings of science: Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge — it is as immortal as the heart of man. If the labours of men...impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of Science . . . [and]... | |
 | Oscar Mandel - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 332 pages
...Wordsworth published his "Preface," he could begin a sentence with a most instructive conjunction: "IF the labours of Men of science should ever create...indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions we habitually receive. ..." Such an IF made sense in 1800, and it stands where it does like a pillar... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...move his wings" — and he hypothesized about a future generation of comfortably scientific poets: If the labours of Men of science should ever create...the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those general indirect effects,... | |
 | 1992 - 312 pages
..."Preface to Lyrical Ballads," to continue by making the wish that science be transformed into poetry: "If the labours of Men of science should ever create...and in the impressions which we habitually receive," then the poet "will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science... carrying sensation into the... | |
 | David Millard Locke - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 268 pages
...famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth is at some pains to reconcile science and poetry: "If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution ..., the Poet will be at [their] side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of science... | |
 | Alan Cromer - Science - 1995 - 257 pages
...will? In the past, science and technology were loudly hailed by the poets. In 1805 Wordsworth wrote: If the labours of men of science should ever create...impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those... | |
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