...Coleridge and Wordsworth upon this matter. The essential problem is suggested by Wordsworth's phrase "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." Is the "excitement," then, the chief factor in the selection and combination of images, and do the...

...coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; 1 and further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the...

...principal object then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously,...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. . . . But speaking in less general language, it is to follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when...

...Keble, passim.' 1-3 The phrase 'passionate exercise of lofty thoughts' recalls the Preface of 1800: 'The manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' 9-14 The frequent revision of this sonnet (see p. 201) indicates Wordsworth's uncertainty as to the...

...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspe.ct; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of...

...colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of...

...confirmed his belief in the idea of growth, accentuating its importance ; above all, it suggested to him "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." But Wordsworth's susceptibilities after all were greatest as poet, and his widest culture came from...

...was possible, in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over mem Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the...

...images," new " generalizations of truth or experience."2 So Wordsworth found a special significance in " the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement." There is still the presupposition that in this state of emotion the poet sees truly, but there is a...

...presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and 294 situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Humble and rustic life was generally chosen — The language, too, of these men has been adopted —...