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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: relieved, we find such a relief in his poetry through his delight in beauty. He speaks in one of his sonnets of the mighty ravishment of spring, and some of that vernal rapture lives in his own verse. III. WORDSWORTH IN RELATION TO HIS AGE. Wordsworth's originality as a poet does not consist in detachment from his age; his poetry embodies some of the leading tendencies of his time, but in passing through his mind these were purified and ennobled. The years of his early manhood were those of the great Revolutionary upheaval in France, and Wordsworth was for a time an ardent partisan on the side of the Revolution. What remained to him of that early faith after the historical development of the movement in France had alienated his sympathies? The answer to this question has been so well given by Dr Edward Caird that little need be added to his statement. Of the so-called return to nature in the second half of the eighteenth century, a new feeling for the wilder and grander aspects of natural beauty in the visible world was a part. Rousseau, a prophet of-the Revolution, had given eloquent utterance to this feeling. Wordsworth, endowed as he was with the finest sensibility of eye and ear and possessing a poet's imagination, was peculiarly well fitted to express this sentiment. He dealt with it not in a vague rhetorical way, but with all the advantages derived from exact observation, and a close, imaginative study of the facts of the external world. And because his temper was one of sanity, he did not, in the manner of some other writers inspired by the Revolution, set up ? at least in his maturer work ? any opposition between nature and human society. Half ofByron's feeling for external nature lies in his recoil, sometimes rather rhetorical than real, from man and the con...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217320269 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217320260 |
| Weight | 1.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.08 In |
| List Price | $15.23 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 484 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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