 | Donald A. Low - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 474 pages
...Burns as a pioneer: Now I find no manners in Burger; in Burns you have manners everywhere (I799) ... I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy/, The...perished in his pride ;/Of Him who walked in glory and in joy/Following his plough, along the mountain-side ;/By our own spirits are we deified (1802) . . .... | |
 | Isobel Armstrong, Hans-Werner Ludwig - English literature - 1995 - 244 pages
...when the priest at Wychwood's funeral falsifies Wordsworth's lines from "Resolution and Independence": I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride, (vii) changing them to: Thou marvellous young man, With your sleepless soul never perishing in pride.10... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...warbling in thesky'and'theplaiful hare' to ask: But how can He expeet that others should Build tor him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?a5 Yet Herbert expecis to be raised, and Wordsworth recovers his powers after encountering the... | |
 | Paul Kane - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 268 pages
...in the works of the English romantic poets, particularly Wordsworth in 'Resolution and Independence' ('I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy / The sleepless soul, that perished in his pride'). Chatterton was certainly a favourite figure of the romantics (the neglected genius who poisons himself... | |
 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
...irrationality of the poet's vocation. He seems to be dependent, even parasitic, relying on others to "Build for him, sow for him, and at his call / Love him." This formula alludes, of course, to the Sermon on the Mount: No man can serve two masters; ... Ye cannot... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...avoid not only the excesses of a Chatterton or a Burns but also the irresponsibility of a Coleridge: "how can He expect that others should / Build for...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?" These lines reflect the attitude toward Coleridge's behavior that was beginning to form, and harden,... | |
 | David Bromwich - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...his greatest poetry. It was still in his mind when he came to write "Resolution and Independence": "How can He expect that others should / Build for...Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?" In that poem, the Leech-gatherer is an inarticulate version of the Pedlar, while the poet, though beginning... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...guarantees special treatment, satisfaction, and safety. That is the argument of the famous stanza: "I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy / The...his pride; /Of Him who walked in glory and in joy / Following his plough, along the mountain-side: / By our own spirits are we deified: / We Poets in... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1918 - 868 pages
...Neutral gebraucht: III 26, 78; Exc. 4, 147. 19. Soul (295) masc., fern. Masc. (im sinne von 'mann'): Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, / The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride. VI 22, 44. Fein.: No irreligious sound or sight / Rouses the soul from her severe delight, 16,353.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good; But how can He expect that others should 40 Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?... | |
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But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all? I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride... 
