...unknown to former times" which were "acting with a combined force" on the mind, one of the foremost was "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...communication of intelligence hourly gratifies."' But it would be a mistake simply to take at face value Wordsworth's claim that the salutary habits...

..."savage torpor" were "the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing [sic] accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (Prose Works, 1: 128). 11. For a powerful reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment in these terms see...

...outrageous stimulation" that took men (and women too) away from cultivation and refinement of sensibility: "a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He called, and no wonder, his and Coleridge's poems "short essays," offering them as part of "the present...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratif1es. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country...

...discriminating powers of the mind," bringing about "a state of almost savage stupor," Wordsworth writes: The most effective of these causes are the great national...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. "The rapid communication of intelligence hourly"; this is Wordsworth's resonant equivalent for "journalism."...

...The Poems, ed. John O. Hayden, 2 vols. (London: Penguin Books, 1977), 1:867-96; here pp. 870-71. 46. "The most effective of these causes are the great...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (ibid., pp. 872-73). 47. "The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes...

...cities is bad for the mind. "The discriminating powers of the mind" are being "blunted" in part by "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." Like Gray, Wordsworth often associates the sublime with mountains. In 1809 he wrote a Guide to the...

...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of events hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies [through newspapers] [...] The invaluable works of our elder writers [...] are driven into neglect...

...Ballads [ 1 800], p. 249. the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.94 One such commentator claimed that the metropolitan setting enabled 'large bands of labourers',...