Date: w. 1821, 1840
"It begins at the imagination and the intellect as at the core, and distributes itself thence as a paralyzing venom, through the affections into the very appetites, until all become a torpid mass in which hardly sense survives."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
Poetry "reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: 1848
" Yet can I think of thee till thought is blind."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1848
"I cannot see, / Fancy is dead and drunken at its goal"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1850
"[S]ometimes, 'tis true, / By chance collisions and quaint accidents / (Like those ill-sorted unions, work supposed / Of evil-minded fairies), yet not vain / Nor profitless, if haply they impressed / Collateral objects and appearances, / Albeit lifeless then, and doomed to sleep / Until maturer s...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"Even now appears before the mind's clear eye
That self-same village church"
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"I have thought / Of thee, thy learning, gorgeous eloquence, / And all the strength and plumage of thy youth, / Thy subtle speculations, toils abstruse / Among the schoolmen, and Platonic forms / Of wild ideal pageantry, shaped out / From things well-matched or ill, and words for things, / The se...
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"In trivial occupations, and the round / Of ordinary intercourse, our minds / Are nourished and invisibly repaired."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"And, as the horizon of my mind enlarged, / Again I took the intellectual eye / For my instructor, studious more to see / Great truths, than touch and handle little ones."
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