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48 Cards in this Set
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Preface
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"Real language of men"
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Preface
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"Each of the poems has a worthy purpose."
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Preface
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In "rustic life" they "speak a plainer and more emphatic language"
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Preface
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Snobbish poets "separate themselves from the sympathies of men" in attempting to "conf[er] honour upon themselves"
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Preface
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"Gaudiness and inane phraseology of modern writers."
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Hazlitt
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"Political changes of the day were the model on which Wordsworth formed and conducted his experiments"
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Blades on 'Tintern Abbey'
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"a celebration of the subjective Romantic imagination...also celebrates Wordsworth's new, fuller vision"
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Blades on 'Tintern Abbey'
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"unmistakable tone of spontaneous assertiveness about this new way of seeing"
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Whalley on 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
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"both an unconscious projection of Coleridge's early sufferings and a vivid prophecy of the sufferings that were to follow."
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Bostetter on the 'Christian Universe' of 'Mariner' 1
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"most striking affinity is with medieval Catholicism... or the lurid Calvinism of the extreme Evangelicals"
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Bostetter on the 'Christian Universe' of 'Mariner' 2
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"The God of the poem, however, is a jealous God... even the most trivial violations of his love will bring ruthless and prolonged punishment"
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'Tintern Abbey'
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In the "tall mountain" he had "an appetite; a feeling and a love,"
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'Tintern Abbey'
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"Still, sad music of humanity"
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'Tintern Abbey'
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In a "wild secluded scene" he has "thoughts of more deep seclusion"
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'Tintern Abbey'
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"sportive wood run wild"
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'Tintern Abbey'
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"a sense sublime...whose dwelling is the light of setting suns"
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'The Female Vagrant'
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"Ravage was made, for which no knell was heard"
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'The Nightingale'
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"crowds, and hurries, and precipitates/With fast thick warble his delicious notes"
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'The Nightingale'
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"Farewell, O warbler."
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'Simon Lee'
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"Though he has but one eye left/His cheek is like a cherry."
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'Simon Lee'
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"The tangl'd root I sever'd/At which the poor man so long/And vainly had endeavour'd."
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'Simon Lee'
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"The gratitude of men/Has oftener left me mourning."
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'We Are Seven'
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"She had a rustic, woodland air."
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'We Are Seven'
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"'Then ye are only five.'"
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'We Are Seven'
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"Two of us in the church-yard lie/Beneath the church-yard tree."
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'We Are Seven'
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"'Nay, we are Seven!'"
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'Lines Written in Early Spring'
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"...pleasant thoughts/Bring sad thoughts to the mind."
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1785
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Storming of the Bastille, beginning of the French Revolution
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1789
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War declared between England and France - Wordsworth "feels an outcast in his own country" (introduction to Cambridge Companion)
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Pite
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"'Nature' was a term continuously employed in profound theological, philosophical and political debates"
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Pite
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Nature "could be seen as a brutal or harmonious force"
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Perry
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Coleridge's Unitarianism saw a "perpetual revelation of God in Nature"
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'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1
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"I had killed the bird/That made the breeze to blow."
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'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 2
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"Are those her ribs through which the Sun/Did peer, as through a grate?" - passage with "Nightmare Life-in-Death"
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'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 3
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"A thousand thousand slimy things/Lived on"
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'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 4
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'And now this spell was snapped: once more/I viewed the ocean green,"
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'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 5
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"Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat... And... a seraph man/On every corse there stood."
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Blake - 'Night'
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"The sun descending in the west...The birds are silent in their nest/And I must seek for mine."
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Blake - 'The Lamb' 1
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"Little Lamb, who made thee?"
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Blake - 'The Lamb' 2
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"Little Lamb, I'll tell thee./He is called by thy name"
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Blake - 'The Tyger' 1
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"Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright/In the forest of the night"
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Blake - 'The Tyger' 2
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"And What shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?"
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Blake - 'The Divine Image' 1
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"For Mercy has a human heart"
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Blake - 'The Divine Image' 2
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"Then every man, of every clime/...Prays to the human form divine"
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Eaves on Blake
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Blake "fundamentally resistant to specialisation...rationalisation, industrialisation, modernisation, professionalism"
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Wordsworth letter to Wilson, 1802
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"no human being can be so...debased by oppression...as to be utterly insensible to the colours, forms or smell of flowers, the voices and motions of the birds and beasts"
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Blake - 'Night' 2
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"Unseen they pour blessing/And joy without ceasing/On each bud and blossom"
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Blake - 'Night' 3
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"When wolves and tigers howl for prey/They pitying stand and weep/Seeking to drive their thirst away."
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