...subject, the poet, Wordsworth notes that in addition to other qualities the poet is characterized by a disposition to be affected more than other men by...ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indced far from being the same as those produced by real events, yet (especially in those parts of...

...similar way when speaking of the poet's ability to generate feelings, which he defines in this way: "an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which...being the same as those produced by real events". (PW II p.393). 65. I am aware that it is possible to find inconsistencies of both a theoretical, philosophical...

...is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create...absent things as if they were present; an ability to conjure up in himself passions, which arc indeed far from being the same as those produced by real...

...artist carries death within him like a good priest his breviary."12 Wordsworth thought the poet had a "disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present," that the poetic imagination operates most powerfully within the spaces of absence or dislocation.13...

...is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them'. Coleridge hesitated, troubled by their 'daring Humbleness of Language & Versification, and a strict...

...second edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800) brings all this to the cusp of Romanticism: that a poet "is affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present" so that poetry, the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . . . takes its origin from emotion...

...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...

...disposition and ability, we recall Wordsworth saying in the Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, "to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present," to "[conjure] up in himself passions," and "to let himself slip into an entire delusion, and even confound...

...is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them (Ballads 237). How are we to read this? A man of more than average soul, sensibility, and tenderness...

...is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.' 1802 'Among the qualities which I have enumerated as principally conducing to form a Poet, is implied...