William Wordsworth believed that it was through the permanent forms of nature that God was revealed to man. His best poetry is the lofty and sublime expression of the divine solace and comfort which he found in nature. Not a deist, Wordsworth is nevertheless linked with deism because he infers a Cr...
William Wordsworth believed that it was through the permanent forms of nature that God was revealed to man. His best poetry is the lofty and sublime expression of the divine solace and comfort which he found in nature. Not a deist, Wordsworth is nevertheless linked with deism because he infers a Creator from his creation. Not a transcendentalists, Wordsworth is associated with that group because he believed that the soul, instructed by the senses and by nature, transcends both and becomes assimilated with a divine totality. His philosophy of nature had always incorporated within it necessities of change from joy to pleasure to quietism. The Prelude, as it turned out, hecame the work of a lifetme. The first version, completed in 1805-6, he considened unsatisfactory or perhaps too personal to publish. Instead of offering it to the public, Wordsworth kept it at his side, polishing, changing, and adding to the poem. Published a few months after his death, The Prelude of 1850 was comderably altered from the manuscript of 1805-6. The Prelude represents the poet's view of nature. The magnificence of it cannot be reproduced in any account of it no matter how detailed, nor can the comments of admiring critics explain it. The Prelude is the self-examination and the training ground of the poets view of nature. It was not wise to set in hand an enquiry, with no limit of height, depth or breadth, into the interrelations of man and nature, before undertaking a rigorous self-inquisition. Wordsworth's reactions were altogether different. With greater confidence and resolution, he would not abandon his holy aim but set himself first to search into the roots of his own being and to sift and appraise the influences which surrounded his childhood and early life. His object was to find out if he were truly fitted or if, in the hand and humble exercise of his self-inquisition, he coued become truly fitted for his grand and laborious task.
William Wordsworth believed that it was through the permanent forms of nature that God was revealed to man. His best poetry is the lofty and sublime expression of the divine solace and comfort which he found in nature. Not a deist, Wordsworth is nevertheless linked with deism because he infers a Creator from his creation. Not a transcendentalists, Wordsworth is associated with that group because he believed that the soul, instructed by the senses and by nature, transcends both and becomes assimilated with a divine totality. His philosophy of nature had always incorporated within it necessities of change from joy to pleasure to quietism. The Prelude, as it turned out, hecame the work of a lifetme. The first version, completed in 1805-6, he considened unsatisfactory or perhaps too personal to publish. Instead of offering it to the public, Wordsworth kept it at his side, polishing, changing, and adding to the poem. Published a few months after his death, The Prelude of 1850 was comderably altered from the manuscript of 1805-6. The Prelude represents the poet's view of nature. The magnificence of it cannot be reproduced in any account of it no matter how detailed, nor can the comments of admiring critics explain it. The Prelude is the self-examination and the training ground of the poets view of nature. It was not wise to set in hand an enquiry, with no limit of height, depth or breadth, into the interrelations of man and nature, before undertaking a rigorous self-inquisition. Wordsworth's reactions were altogether different. With greater confidence and resolution, he would not abandon his holy aim but set himself first to search into the roots of his own being and to sift and appraise the influences which surrounded his childhood and early life. His object was to find out if he were truly fitted or if, in the hand and humble exercise of his self-inquisition, he coued become truly fitted for his grand and laborious task.
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