...Immortality, and several of his Sonnets. He says of his own po.try that his purpose in writing it was "to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight...happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of tvcry age to gee, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous."...

...Wordsworth uses prose which exactly reproduces the spirit of Pindar's verse : ' Trouble not yourself upon their present reception : of what moment is that compared with what I trust in their destiny t ' And Wordsworth's description of ' what is called the public ' in this famous letter...

...Immortality, and several of his Sonnets. He says of his own po try that his purpose in writing it was "to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happv happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore...

...you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel ; and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long after we...

...for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. " To console the afflicted ; to odd sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ;...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous," — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont,...

...composition of his poems. In a letter to Lady Beaumont (May 21, 1807) he says, " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...is their destiny !— to console the afflicted, to odd sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every...

...' the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the ' happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every ' age to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more ' active and securely victorious.' If Wordsworth was right — and it is difficult to say that he is...

...and he holds himself as responsible for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier; to ter.ch the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become...

...you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself about their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after...

...often as nought. But of himself no~* view could be more sound. He is a teacher, or he is nothing. " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and sincerely virtuous "- — that was his vocation ; to show that the mutual adaptation of the external...