... a state of almost savage torpor" (Wordsworth, Preface, 575). This emphasis on the human minds capability "of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants" is Wordsworths reaction to the growing number of city-dwellers who incessantly crave awesome and abominable "violent stimulants" (Wordsworth, Preface, 575). However, even in light of this disappointment, Wordsworth characterizes the Romantic poet as "finding every where objects that immediately excite ... are no houses in the forest. If he does know, then his Imagination merely makes a logical connection of the s...

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