Many of his most admired poems, such as the Lines written near Tintern Abbey, the great Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, the Sonnets, and many parts of his longest poems, The Excursion and The Prelude, deal with philosophic thought and highly intellectualized emotions.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
Anger, in its exalted, violent form, is rather an agent of destruction, which seems to contradict my thesis; but let us pass over the storm, which is always of short duration, and we find in its place milder intellectualized forms, which are various modifications of primitive fury, passing from the acute to the chronic state: envy, jealousy, enmity, premeditated vengeance, and so forth.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
As a form of creation it is already known to us, but in passing from animals to children, it grows in complexity and becomes intellectualized.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot