...thinks the admission dangerous — that poetry is concerned with appearance, not with reality. "Poetry's appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty,...exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the sense and the passions." If this is true, the aim of poetry is illusion; what, then, do people mean...

...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem *'i exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world 01 delusion does this acknowledged obligation...

...they are, but as they might be, or ought to be. But to Wordsworth, the appropriate business of poetry is 'to treat of things not as they are . . , but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions,' and as worked upon 'in the spirit of genuine imagination.'...

...the first collected edition of his poems. Here he writes, "The appropriate business of poetry . . . her appropriate employment, her privilege and her...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions" [Wordsworth's italics].46 This arresting declaration, it will be noticed, with its radical empiricism...

...life," he justifies his choice of subject matter. Even when he says that the duty of poetry is "to treat things not as they are, but as they appear, not as...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions," he defends the poet's emotion and transfiguration of reality and not psychological solipsism or illusionism,48...

...chiefly proceed; but upon Youth it operates with peculiar force. The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent...not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to 29 exist to the senses, and to the passions. What a world of delusion does this acknowledged obligation...

...appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science) ... is to treat of things not as they are, but as they...but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions."8 The courtesan Harriette Wilson's Memoirs of Herself and Others (1825) begins with an attempt...

...the romantic view of Wordsworth that the task of poetry is "to treat of things not as they are, hut as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." His love for Finland is especially evident in the narrative poem Eda (1824), ahout a local girl who...

...phenomenology of the poet should also be the phenomenology of the scientist, that both have a duty "to treat things not as they are, but as they appear, not as...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions" (3:63, original emphasis).23 That dissection is not necessarily a fetish for "things as they are,"...

...Supplementary to the Preface" to his 1815 Poetical Works when he declares that the business of poetry "is to treat of things not as they are, but as they...seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." Prose Works, 3:63. Paul de Man has explored this aspect of Romantic nature imagery at some length,...