...Bridge'. As I read: 'Earth has not anything to show more fair . . . This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.' — the heavenly light of dawn with...

...represented as silent and smokeless, a city opening 'unto the fields': The City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.16 Since at least the Industrial Revolution,...

...(Looking back): They're coming now. JOE (Ignoring him, recites): This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships,...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky . . . (Beat.) HENRY: Wrong bridge. JOE: Yes. I know. HENRY: I didn't mean to — JOE...

...Westminster Bridge early one morning in the summer of 1802, wrote the famous sonnet beginning: Earth has not anything to show more fair; Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: A decade later the Prussian field marshal Bliicher,...

...Wordsworth's "Sonnet, Composed upon Westminster Bridge" in these lines; they are reminiscent of Wordsworth's "silent, bare, / Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie / Open unto the fields, and to the sky" (lines 5-7). Browning may be rehumanizing Wordsworth's lines, which present a city...

...being is utterly absent, and the cityscape thus instantly becomes a part of a whole, physical earth silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep...

...frosty wind from fields of snow. 123 Sonnef: Composed Upon Wesfm/nsfer Bridge WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep...

...not by displacing it in time but by putting it to sleep and halfassimilating it back to nature: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep...

...poem, a rare example of Wordsworth's willingness to find in the city a locus of creative power: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep...

...reader's with a poem by the great Tang poet Du Fu (712-770). Wordsworth writes in a famous sonnet: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he...in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; . . . Owen argues that however concretely Wordsworth might portray...