...novel intimacy with her and her manifestations. When he was fourteen, he says, he became conscious ' of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by poets of any age and country', and resolved 'to supply in some degree the deficiency'. But he was more...

...observe the dark outline of an oak against the western sky; and he says he was at the moment struck with "the infinite variety of natural appearances which...unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," so far as he was acquainted with them, and "made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency." He spent...

...this first struck me. It was in the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history for...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country." Such nature-consciousness, joined to an answering selfconsciousness, is the "incumbent mystery" from...

...not observed", and, regarding the lightand-shade portrayal of an oak in that poem he declared, [...] I recollect distinctly the very spot where this first...acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency. I could not at that time have been above 14 years of age.8 This claim...

...that moment really bothered me: "The moment was important in my poetical history," Wordsworth stated, "for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country" (emphasis added). And it was this kind of provincialism (no matter that Chinese poets were writing...

...this first struck me. It was in the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for...acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency.'*' I would argue that it is no coincidence that the lines that Wordsworth...

...me. It was in the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment is important in my poetical history; for I date from...acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above 14 years of age."23 The very...

...Wordsworth keenly, as if the moment inaugurated a poetic life with the force of religious conversion: 'I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country . . . and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency' (Fenwick, 6, 7). It is a realist...

...both simultaneously. Thus, Wordsworth, for instance, the high-priest of nature, would not only picture "the infinite variety of natural appearances which...been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country," but also express something of the ecstatic illumination that he felt flow in upon him from a spirit...

...W. first saw it: 'It was in the way between Hawkshead and Ambleside, and gave me extreme pleasure. The moment was important in my poetical history; for...acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply in some degree the deficiency. I could not have been at that time above fourteen years of age.' [The]...