...friend ; creative art (Whether the instrument of words she use Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues) Demands the service of a mind and heart Though sensitive,...While the whole world seems adverse to desert, And oh I when Nature sinks, as. oft she may, Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress, Still to be...

...attitudes to poetry, and indeed to art as a whole : High is our calling, Friend ! — Creative Art . . . Demands the service of a mind and heart Though sensitive,...Muse While the whole world seems adverse to desert. These are the lines to the painter Haydon, in December 1815. They are significant for the additional...

...a crusade. Poetic power: Wordsworth and de Quincey High is our calling, Friend! Creative Art . . . Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...their weakest part. Heroically fashioned . . . (To BR Haydon') One of the remarkable aspects of Wordsworth's later years was his concern for the architecture...

...wrote: Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she uses, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned. 2. Imagine what a tremendous effort it must have been for the ancient blessed bard to compose in such...

...— Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned . . . Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!25 There is no thought here of a struggle with God,...

...Friend ! Creative Art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues.) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive,...— to infuse Faith In the whispers of the lonely mnse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert. And oh ! when nature sinks, as oft she may, Throngh...