Wordsworthiana: a Selection From Papers Read to the Wordsworth Society
Wordsworthiana: a Selection From Papers Read to the Wordsworth Society
William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society
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If Wordsworth be judged by the ex utigue leontm standard, by passages, or by a dozen single poems, no one capable of forming an opinion would hesitate to pronounce him, not only a great poet, but among the greatest, convinced in the one case by the style, and in both by the force that radiates from him, by the stimulus he sends kindling through every fibre of the intellect and of the imagination. At the same time therci is no admittedly great poet in placing whom we are forced to acknowledge so... many limitations and to make so many concessions. Even as a teacher he is often too much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints, and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than* by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose classroom commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodi- gality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his Digitized by VjOOQIC J.
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