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No poet has ever lived and written down , and that in the most quiet way , a greater host of difficulties than Wordsworth . The common consent which once denied him a place amongst the bards of his age and country , now seems to concede to him the hi ghest rank . He has overcome a world of prejudices ,, and also some just objections . A new theory of poetry ; a practice which
made more startling whatever was most startling in that theory ; an offensive defiance of all the common-place , adventitious aids of what is called poetical interest ; the political hostility of the two great parties of the state in succession ; the heavier charge ,, with all parties , of apostasy ; the repeated , and what appeared the demolishing , attacks of the acutest and most influential criticism of the day ; ridicule from all quarters through many years : these are the rocks and brambles over which he has pursued his path
up the lofty eminence on whose hei g hts he now peacefully reclines . This is the course of greatness . We do it reverence ; and not the less fervently for perceiving that there is some lack of discrimination in the homage which all now render , as there was in the laugh which all aforetime echoed . Genuine poetical criticism is the next rarest , and perhaps next best thing in the world to genuine poetry . Wordswortn has been termed both the most philosophical of ? fc Yarrow Revisited , and other Poemi / by W . Wordsworth , Longman , 1635 .
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Sonnet 173 . Impetuous stream ! that , with resistless force Wearing from mountain rocks thy rugged bed , By day , by night , with me dost urge thy course , Where thou by nature . I by love am led .
Flow on ! uncurbed thy current ' s headlong motion By sleep or weariness , but e ' er thou pay Thy tributary waters to the ocean , In deep attention fixed , a moment stay There where the herb a fresher green displays , Where the young zephyr breathes a balmier sigh ; For there our living sun , with lucid rays ,
Beams rich refulgence on the enchanted eye , And brightens with her smile thy western strand . Perchance ( too daring hope !) she mourns my tstay : Bathe her soft foot , and kiss her snowy hand ; A lover ' s message let that kiss convey : Tell her my willing spirit hovers near ; 'Tis but the fainting flesh that lingers here . MARY
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TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH .
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WORDSWORTH'S POEMS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/66/
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