 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - English poetry - 1924 - 298 pages
...shooting from the clear blue sky," Nature's "healing power," etc. "Seldom, if ever," says Coleridge, "was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced." The spirit of devoutness, fundamentally characteristic of Wordsworth, is manifested in this poem. In... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...1794, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches;" ' and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | Margaret Russett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 318 pages
...residence at Cambridge" he "became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication," had felt that "seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced" (BL 1:77). But De Quincey, having unlike Coleridge no independent reputation as an author, represented... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...fire. (336-47) Coleridge, writing years later with the undimmed enthusiasm of hindsight, declared that "seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced."50 But though this apocalyptic passage is indeed the best thing in the poem, Coleridge also... | |
 | Jerome Christensen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...Cambridge I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication, entitled Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. ... It not seldom |however| justified the complaint of obscurity. In the following extract I have sometimes... | |
 | Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...later, in his Biographia Literaria, Coleridge would describe the effect on him of these two poems: 'Seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced.' But this was far from being the general view at the time. In the same letter to Thelwall, Coleridge... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1866 - 786 pages
...pedestrian tour on the continent, entitled Descriptive Sketches in Verse, &c., followed bytbe Evening Walk, an epistle, in verse, addressed to a young lady....various parts of England, our author took a cottage at Alfoiton, in Somersetshire, near the then residence of Coleridge, where they were regarded by the good... | |
 | 376 pages
...1794, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1851 - 836 pages
...ministered to the enjoyments of both. ' Seldom, if ever," says Coleridge in the Biographia Literaria, ' was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.' But poetry can never be counted on as a means of support; and hitherto Wordsworth had been almost wholly... | |
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During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently... 
