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Reads tagged with “William Wordsworth”

Wordsworth on Genius and the Creative Responsibility of Elevating Taste
Wordsworth on Genius and the Creative Responsibility of Elevating Taste

“To create taste is to call forth and bestow power, of which knowledge is the effect; and there lies the true difficulty.”

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William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science
William Wordsworth on Pleasure as the Shared Heart of Poetry and Science

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.”

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