...bond with creation is not merely naturalistic or emotional, but metaphysical and religious: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters ... This vision expands into a statement of the Romantic doctrine of pantheism (the idea that God is...

...a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags; so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy...

...a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy...

...a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy...

...imperfect linguistic resources. As Coleridge promises his infant son in Frost at Midnight, so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible...eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.27 (58-62) Things cogently perceived through the senses are the words of God; God's words are...

...a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible of that eternal language, which thy...

...answer to this question is deferred to a future faith: in this case, to that of his child raised to 'see and hear / The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible / Of that eternal language.'26 For Wordsworth this faith in the connection between consciousness and the material is...

...and, at least for a few minutes, in their hearts — than to see them snoozing on dusty bookshelves. So shall thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds...doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself. From a letter Steve wrote to Harold Bloom, not long after our memorization project was done: Poetry...

...begins with a sense of constraint, however, many critics make the progress to the final vision, of The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters ..., sound far too easy. For Everest, again, the 'toy of Thought' (1.23) indicates a lightness of tone...

...Midnight', where Hartley learns to interpret the 'shapes and sounds intelligible' of God's language, who 'from eternity doth teach / Himself in all, and all things in himself. The child reflects on and in a landscape which is itself divinely reflective; and his education is...