Laodamia : poem by Wordsworth.
... imaginative insight, in which his thought and his ethical Page 136 sense and spiritual sight meet in a fine harmony, as in his one great Ode, in some of his sonnets, in Ruth , even in Laodamia , in lines and passages which uplift and redeem much of his less satisfying work, while when the inner light shines wholly out, it admits him to the secret of the very self-revealing voice of Nature ...
... Inde pendence & Liberry, 233n -"Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour", 233n -Poems of the Imagination, 231-2n -"I wandered lonely as a cloud" (The Daffodils), 169n., 232n . -"Laodamia", 231n -"She was a Phantom of delight", 232n -"Three years she Grew", 233n -"To a Skylark", 232n -(Poems Referring to the Period of Childhaod) -"Lucy Gray", 230n -"We Are ...
... Wordsworth in Michael, The Fountain, The Solitary Reaper and ruthlessly dismissed his formal philosophy as it is set forth in The Excursion. There is, in his view, something artificial in Laodamia , and some fanciful and declamatory elements in Intimations of Immortality though the two poems are otherwise admirable. As the four people from whom he learnt habits, methods and ruling ...
... lines such as these? On the gates of entry to the poetic world of Wordsworth is engraved this motto: The Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul¹ ¹"Laodamia", 74, Poems of the Imagination . Page –231 It is as if the hermitage of old, an abode of peace and quiet, sa nta-rasaspadam-asramam-idam. All here is calm and unhurried, simple and ...
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