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William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English poet of the Romantic period. Matthew Arnold is complimentary of Wordsworth’s poetry but stops short of praising it outright. Arnold uses Wordsworth’s definition of poetry—namely, that it is the “breath and finer spirit of all knowledge”—in order to introduce his idea that science cannot proceed without poetry’s influence.
William Wordsworth Quotes in The Study of Poetry
The The Study of Poetry quotes below are all either spoken by William Wordsworth or refer to William Wordsworth . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Study of Poetry
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More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry ‘the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.’
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William Wordsworth Quotes in The Study of Poetry
The The Study of Poetry quotes below are all either spoken by William Wordsworth or refer to William Wordsworth . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Study of Poetry
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More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry ‘the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.’
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