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Jamieson's version of Fair Annie�察�for Edom o' Gordon�察�for The Daemon 

Lover�察�for Edward�察�Edward�察�and for the Scottish edition of The Battle of 

Otterbourne。 

       MRS。 ANNE KILLIGREW 

       This   most   majestic   odeone   of   the   few   greatest   of   its   kindis   a 

model of noble rhythm and especially of cadence。 To print it whole would 

be impossible�察�and one of the very few excisions in this book is made in 

the midst of it。 Dryden�察�so adult and so far from simplicity�察�bears himself 

like   a   child  who�察  �having   said   something   fine�察  �caps   it   with   something 

foolish。   The   suppressed   part   of   the   ode   is   silly   with   a   silliness   which 

Dryden's age chose to dodder in when it would。 The deplorable ;rattling 

bones; of the closing section has a touch of it。 

       SONG�察�FROM ABDELAZAR 

       It is a futile thingand the cause of a train of futilitiesto hail ;style; 

as   though   it   were   a   separable   quality   in   literature�察  �and   it   is   not   in   that 

illusion that the style of the opening of Aphra Behn's resounding song is to 

be praised。 But it IS the styleimplying the reckless and majestic heart 

that first takes the reader of these great verses。 

       HYMN ��The spacious firmament on high�� 

       Whether Addison wrote the whole of this or not��and it seems that 

the   inspired    passages    are   none   of   hisit  is  to   me  a  poem   of   genius�察�

magical in spite of the limited diction。 

       ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY 

       Also in spite of limited dictionthe sign of thought closing in�察�as it 

did   fast   close   in   during   those   yearsare   Pope's   tenderness   and   passion 

communicated in this beautiful elegy。 It would not be too much to say that 

all his passion�察�all his tenderness�察�and certainly all his mystery�察�are in the 

few   lines   at   the   opening   and   close。   The   Epistle   of   Eloisa   is   ��artistically 

speaking��      but   a  counterfeit。   Yet   Pope's    Elegy    begins   by   stealing   and 

translating   into   the   false   elegance   of   altered   taste   that   lovely   and   poetic 

opening of Ben Jonson's ´ 



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     ;What      beckoning     ghost�察   �besprent    with   April    dew�察  �Hails    me   so 

solemnly to yonder yew�拭─�

     All the gravity�察�all the sweetness�察�one might fear�察�must be lost in such a 

change as Pope makes ´ 

     ;What   beckoning   ghost   along   the   moonlight   shade   Invites   my   steps�察�

and points to yonder glade�拭─�

     Yet   they  are   not   lost。   Pope's   awe   and   ardour   are   authentic�察  �and   they 

prevail�察   �the   succeeding     coupletinimitably       modulated�察    �and   of   tragic 

dignityproves�察�without delay�察�the quality of the poem。 The poverty and 

coldness   of   the   passage   ��towards   the   end���察  �in   which   the   roses   and   the 

angels are somewhat trivially sung�察�cannot mar so veritable an utterance。 

The four final couplets are the very glory of the English couplet。 

       LINE ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE 

       Cowper�察  �again�察  �by   the   very   directness   of   human   feeling   makes   his 

narrowing English a means of absolutely direct communication。 Of all his 

works   ��and   this   is   my   own   mere   and   unshared   opinion��   this   single   one 

deserves immortality。 

       LIFE 

       This fragment ��the only fragment�察�properly so called�察�in the present 

collection�� so pleased Wordsworth that he wished he had written the lines。 

They are very gently touched。 

       THE LAND OF DREAMS 

       When   Blake   writes   of   sleep   and   dreams   he   writes   under   the   very 

influence of the hours of sleepwith a waking consciousness of the wilder 

emotion of the dream。 Corot painted so�察�when at summer dawn he went 

out and saw landscape in the hours of sleep。 

       SURPRISED BY JOY 

       It  is  not  necessary     to  write   notes   on   Wordsworth's      sonnetsthe 

greatest sonnets in our literature�察�but it would be well to warn editors how 

they print this one sonnet�察 �I wished to share the transport; is by no means 

an uncommon reading。 Into the history of the variant I have not looked。 It 

is   enough     that  all  the  suddenness�察    �all  the   clash   and   recoil  of   these 

impassioned lines are lost by that ;wished; in the place of ;turned。; The 

loss would be the less tolerable in as much as perhaps only here and in that 



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heart´moving poem�察�'Tis said that some have died for love�察�is Wordsworth 

to be confessed as an impassioned poet。 

        STEPPING WESTWARD 

     This and the preceding two exquisite poems of sympathy are far more 

justified�察   �more    recollected    and   sincere    than   is  that  more    monumental 

composition�察  �the   famous   poem   of   sympathy�察  �Hartleap   Well。   The   most 

beautiful stanzas of this poem last´named are so rebuked by the truths of 

nature that they must ever stand as obstacles to the straightforward view of 

sensitive eyes upon the natural world。 Wordsworth shows us the ruins of 

an    aspen´wood�察     �a  blighted    hollow�察   �a  dreary    place   forlorn   because     an 

innocent   creature�察  �hunted�察  �had   there   broken   its   heart   in   a   leap   from   the 

rocks above�察�grass would not grow�察�nor shade linger there ´ 

     ;This beast not unobserved by Nature fell�察�His death was mourned by 

sympathy divine。; 

     And   the   signs   of   that   sympathy   are   cruelly   asserted   to   be   these   arid 

woodland ruinscruelly�察�because the common sight of the day blossoming 

over   the   agonies   of   animals   and   birds   is   made   less   tolerable   by   such 

fictions。   We   have   to   shut   our   ears   to   the   benign   beauty   of   this   stanza 

especially ´ 

     ;The   Being   that   is   in   the   clouds   and   air�察�That   is   in   the  green   leaves 

among       the   groves�察   �Maintains      a  deep    and    reverential    care    For   the 

unoffending creature whom He loves。; 

     We   must   shut   our  ears because the  poet   offers   us�察�as   a proof  of  that 

;reverential care�察─�the visible alteration of nature at the scene of suffering´ 

´an   alteration   we   are  obliged   to   dispense   with   every  day  we   pass   in   the 

woods。 We are tempted to ask whether Wordsworth himself believed in a 

sympathy he asks usupon such grounds��to believe in�拭�Did he think his 

faith to be worthy of no more than a fictitious sign or a false proof�拭�

     To   choose   from   Wordsworth   is   to   draw   close   a   net   with   very   large 

meshesso   that   the   lovely   things   that   escape   must   doubtless   cause   the 

reader   to   protest�察  �but   the   poems   gathered   here   are   not   only   supremely 

beautiful but exceedingly Wordsworthian。 

       YOUTH AND AGE 

        Close to the marvellous Kubla Khana poem that wrests the secret of 



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dreams and brings it   to the   light of verseI place Youth and Age as   the 

best specimen of Coleridge's poetry that is quite undeliriousto my mind 

the   only   fine   specimen。   I   do   not   rate   his   undelirious   poems   highly�察  �and 

even this�察�charming and nimble as it is�察�seems to me rather lean in thought 

and    image。    The   tenderness    of  some    of  the   images    comes    to  a  rather 

lamentable close�察�the likeness to ;some poor nigh´related guest; with the 

three lines that follow is too squalid for poetry�察�or prose�察�or thought。 

       THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER 

       This poem is surely more full of a certain quality of extreme poetry 

the simplest ;flower of the mind�察─�the most single magic than any other 

in our language。 But the reader must be permitted to call the story silly。 

     Page 265 ��Are those her ribs through which the Sun�� 

     Coleridge   used   the sun�察 �moon�察 �and   stars   as   a   great dream  uses   them 

when   the   sleeping   imagination   is   obscurely   threatened   with   illness。   All 

through The Ancient Mariner we see them like apparitions。 It is a pity that 

he followed the pranks also of a dream when he impossibly placed a star 

WITHIN the tip of the crescent。 

     Page 266 ��I feer thee�察�ancient Mariner�。� 

     The   likeness   of   ;the   ribbed   sea   sand;   is   said   to   be   the   one   passage 

actually composed by Wordsworth��who according to the first plan should 

have written The Ancient Mariner with Coleridge;and perhaps the most 

beautiful passage in the poem�察─�adds one critic after another。 It is no more 
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