ISBN: 9781154401004

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrat… Mehr…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... gritting lights which he has set to burn upon the hills and in the skies; but, too often, even the sunset glories pall, and weary with their overpainting and golden suffusions of language. If one is tempted to go back to the contemporary criticism of the Excursion, he should temper the matter-of-fact admeasurement and antipathies of Jeffrey in the Edinburgh, with the kindlier and more feeling discourse of Charles Lamb in the Quarterly (1814). And of this latter, it is to be remembered that its warm unction and earnestness were very much abated by editorial jugglery. Lamb never forgave Gifford for putting his d d shoemaker phraseology instead of mine; and in an explanatory letter to Wordsworth he tells him that many passages are cut out altogether, and what is left is of course the worse for their having been there, and in a wonderful figure continues,-- the eyes are pulled out, and the bleeding sockets are left. Personal History. Wordsworth was a Cumberland man by birth, and from the very first opened his young eyea in.--22 upon such scenes as lay along the Derwent. His father was an attorney-at-law and agent for the Lonsdale estates; nor does the poet fail to assure ns in his autobiographic notes--with a pride that is only half veiled--of the gentle blood that flowed in his mother''s veins. But the family purse was not plethoric; and--his father dying, when Wordsworth was only fourteen--it was through the kindness of his uncles that he had his innings at Trinity College, Cambridge, and felt his poetic pulses stirred by the memory of such old Cambridge men as Milton, and Waller, and Gray. The flat meadows bordering the Cam were doubtless tame to his Cumberland eyes, nor do University memories count for much in irradiating his future work; perhaps the brig... Donald Grant Mitchell, Books, History, English Lands, Letters and Kings (Volume 3) Books>History, General Books LLC<