Select Poems of Robert Browning
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ISBN13: 9780217989176
Paperback|9780217989176
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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: sonal note in each, by which one became the bearer of plenteous health, exceeding store of joy, and an impassioned quietude, and the other became the Subtlest Assertor of the Soul in Song ? In any attempt to assign causes for the optimism of a great teacher the influences of hereditary predisposition and of environment must be given a place, but a place subordinate to that third somewhat, ? which we can neither analyze nor define, but which we know as the essential self, ? the individuality. In the case of Wordsworth, heredity and early environment were no doubt of deep significance, and we fear that too often they have been used as a sufficient cause of his optimism. We wish to show that they were efficient, but not sufficient; that in Wordsworth's work we have not only the profoundest thought, but well-ordered thought, in union with poetic sensibility unique and unmatchable; that in the union of natural magic and moral profundity the great body of his work is making for rest and peace, and shade for spirits fevered with the sun in a time when there is no shelter to grow ripe, no leisure to grow wise. Emerson gave a just estimate of the value of heredity and environment in the problem which Wordsworth was to work out, when he said: It is very easy to see that to act so powerfully in this practical age ? as this solitariest and wisest of poets did ? he needed, with all his Oriental abstraction, the indomitable vigor rooted in animal constitution for which his countrymen are marked. His school days were spent in the rural valley of Hawkshead, at the Edward VI. School. There he lived the simple life of the dalesmen until he was prepared for the work of the university. He was a lover of the woods, the hills and the lakes, and these localities are rich in associ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217989176 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217989179 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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