"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. & A. Arch [etc.]
Date
1798
Metaphor
"'That we can feed this mind of ours, / 'In a wise passiveness."
Metaphor in Context
"Nor less I deem that there are powers,
"Which of themselves our minds impress,
"That we can feed this mind of ours,
"In a wise passiveness
.
Provenance
Searching "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1798, 1800).

See Lyrical Ballads With a Few Other Poems (Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1798). <Link to ESTC>

See also Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems. (London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Stream of Consciousness
Date of Entry
09/29/2006

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.