..."entwines / Its darkening boughs and leaves in stronger lines" (213—14). "The moment," he explains, "was important in my poetical history; for I date...of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by poets of any age or country, as far as I was acquainted with them: and I made a resolution to supply...

...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 during the first two college vacations after Waving revised from Moving I left revised to after...

...dark outline of an oak against the western sky; and he says that he was at that 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...acquainted with them, and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency. (PW, 1.318-19) By "the infinite variety of natural appearances" Wordsworth...