| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65488 |
| QUOTATION: | All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. Lyrical Ballads, preface, 2nd edition (1801).
This sentiment, which is a central tenet in Wordsworth’s criticism, has parallels in Schiller, Ueber Bürgers Gedichte, as well as Coleridge’s Notebooks, in which he speaks of “recalling passion in tranquillity.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Wordsworth Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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