{"id":767,"date":"2011-02-22T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=767"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:05:51","slug":"analects-of-the-core-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/22\/analects-of-the-core-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Wordsworth on grandeur"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!<br \/>\nThou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought!<br \/>\nAnd giv&#8217;st to forms and images a breath<br \/>\nAnd everlasting motion! not in vain,<br \/>\nBy day or star-light, thus from my first dawn<br \/>\nOf childhood didst thou intertwine for me<br \/>\nThe passions that build up our human soul;<br \/>\nNot with the mean and vulgar works of Man;<br \/>\nBut with high objects, with enduring things,<br \/>\nWith life and nature; purifying thus<br \/>\nThe elements of feeling and of thought,<br \/>\nAnd sanctifying by such discipline<br \/>\nBoth pain and fear,\u2014until we recognize<br \/>\nA grandeur in the beatings of the heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; William Wordsworth, &#8220;Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought! And giv&#8217;st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! not in vain, By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3831,197,3916,4937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}