Shelley Calderon And Other Essays On English And Spanish Poetry
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It is the reward of his unreserved devotion to Beauty, of his absolute self-surrender to inspiration. When Wordsworth writes : Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet he is speaking, though in " metre, " and conveying to the reader a piece of information. (In actual fact, as will be seen by a perusal of the poem, " Personal Talk, " he is arguing. ) But when Keats writes : Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter. . . . 1 Thus the "tinkled like iron" of hi...s often quoted skating scene. \t 146 THE CASE OF WORDSWORTH he is singing. And he sings so well that his muse rewards him with a most marvellous find of rhythmical intuition. For in this phrase, in the interlacing of heard and un- heard with sweet and sweeter and the placing of these words at the points of main stress, in the prolongation of the line over the beginning of the following line, a pro- longation " harmonised " by that of sweet into sweeter, and in I know not what subtle rhythmical sympathy which pervades it all, there is a most haunting suggestion of the " leaf fringed " decoration which festoons round the Grecian urn.
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