William Wordsworth: Visionary power (from The Prelude, Book 5)

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Visionary power (from The Prelude, Book 5)

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by William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

19th Century

Visionary power
Attends the motions of the viewless winds,
Embodied in the mystery of words:
There, darkness makes abode, and all the host
Of shadowy things work endless changes,--there,
As in a mansion like their proper home,
Even forms and substances are circumfused
By that transparent veil with light divine,
And, through the turnings intricate of verse,
Present themselves as objects recognised,
In flashes, and with glory not their own.

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Light

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Recommended Books

	The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, Edited by Stephen Gill
	Complete Poetical Works, by William Wordsworth
	Favorite Poems: (Dover Thrift Editions), by William Wordsworth
	The Five-Book Prelude, by William Wordsworth / Edited by Duncan Wu
	The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee

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