 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 pagine
...stand firm in it, gain a foothold on this treacherous realm where ecstasy and bathos alternate. "For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink / Deep—...worlds / To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil." Even in "Tintern Abbey" that "shadowy ground" is felt. The poet's act of emplacing himself remains... | |
 | E. P. Thompson - 1994 - 284 pagine
...creatures of imagination. As he told Crabb Robinson, when he came across the lines in The Excursion: Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting...and the empyreal thrones, I pass them, unalarmed. . . they made him ill for weeks with a bowel complaint. But earlier, in Jerusalem, we can detect that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pagine
...need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such 780 Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep - and,...unalarmed. Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, 790 Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe As fall... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 pagine
...later, his ambition goes far beyond the "considerable utility" he claimed for his poem in early 1798: "I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink / Deep...worlds / To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil .../... Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir / Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - 1998 - 208 pagine
...poetical voyage of discovery, the object of which is to lay bare the powers in the human mind: For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and aloft ascending, breathe m worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a vei1. (JW p.413 11.977-979) Being unequivocal as a... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pagine
...limit? On reading Wordsworth's "Prospectus" to the 1814 Excursion, especially the lines, Jehovah—with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones— I pass them unalarmed . . . Blake complained that it gave him a bowel complaint that almost killed him. Henry Crabb Robinson... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2000 - 788 pagine
...shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven. For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and,...veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, 980 That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the quire Of shouting... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2003 - 324 pagine
...Excursion - his ambition goes far beyond the 'considerable utility' he claimed for his poem in early 1798: 'I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink / Deep.../ To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil... /... Jehovah - with his thunder, and the choir / Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones - / I... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pagine
...the human mind, not in the cosmos of an external hell and heaven presided over by an external God, a "Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir / Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones." Sinking "deep" and ascending "aloft," Wordsworth will "pass" all such terrors "unalarmed" (2835), for:... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 pagine
...seem modest. What kind of poet-prophet was this who could, "unalarmed," "tread on shadowy ground . . . sink / Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds / To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil"? It is, William Hazlitt declared in a review of the poem, "as if there were nothing but himself and... | |
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All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed. 
