{"id":1174,"date":"2012-04-07T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2012-04-07T06:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:49:39","slug":"the-world-is-too-much-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/04\/07\/the-world-is-too-much-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The world is too much with us ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The world is too much with us; late and soon,<br \/>\nGetting and spending, we lay waste our powers:<br \/>\nLittle we see in Nature that is ours;<br \/>\nWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!<br \/>\nThis Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;<br \/>\nThe winds that will be howling at all hours,<br \/>\nAnd are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;<br \/>\nFor this, for everything, we are out of tune,<br \/>\nIt moves us not. \u2013 Great God! I'd rather be<br \/>\nA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;<br \/>\nSo might I, standing on this pleasant lea,<br \/>\nHave glimpses that would make me less forlorn;<br \/>\nHave sight of Proteus rising from the sea;<br \/>\nOr hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.<\/p>\n<p>..........................<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even in 1802, when Wordsworth wrote this, g<em>etting and spending<\/em> was seen as a factor in our divorce from nature. \u00a0This is an anti-materialist environmentalist's sonnet. \u00a0A tribute, then, on this his birthday \u2013 <strong><em>April 7th<\/em><\/strong> which should forever be, Wordsworth Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}