dation and pallor which falls on the soul amid "the dreary intercourse of daily life," the heat that is generated by small differences, the poison that is brewed by small suspicions, the burden that is imposed by small cares. To escape from these things into a world of romance is to flee them, and to be defeated by them. Sanity holds hard by the fact, and knows that to turn away from it is to play the recreant. Here was a poet who faced the fact, and against whom the fact did not prevail. To know him is to learn courage; to walk with him is to feel the visitings of a larger, purer air, and the peace of an unfathomable sky. Echo, The Mountain, 166 Emotion, its value as an illuminant, 163, 173, 199, 202, 204, 205, Enoch Arden, 112 Epitaphs, Essay on, 94-95 Evening Walk, An, 20 Evil, problem of, 140-147 Excursion, The, 8, 17, 18, 34, 48, 67, Expostulation and Reply, 130; quoted, Idiot Boy, The, 3, 70, 71, 82, 95-96 It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Jeffrey, Francis, 6-10 Johnson, Samuel, 19, 168 Journal, Dorothy Wordsworth's, 169 Malherbe, 89, 90 Man and Nature, 187-189, 197-199, Marlowe, Christopher, 173 Measure for Measure, 152 Memory, its poetic function, 25 Milton, John, 123 Mind of man, the, 198 Morley, Right Honourable John, 97, 173, 178, 188; quoted, Pippa Passes, 185 Pleasure essential to poetry, 49-50 Poetry, definition of, 25, 154; an Poetry and Religion, 224-225 Pope, Alexander, 44, 90, 129 37, 38, 48, 51, 58, 62, 70, Primrose of the Rock, The, 207 Quantock Hills, 23, 72 Racedown, 21, 68, 176 Rationalism, 57-59, 206 Resolution and Independence, quoted, Rhone, 49 Ring and the Book, The, quoted, 118 Road an academy, the, 176 Ruth, 110, 139 Schoolmaster, described by Words- Science, 147, 153-154, 187, 206, September massacres, 53 Shelley, P. B., 21, 58 Society, Wordsworth's attitude to, Soldier and Wordsworth, 179 Sonnet, Composed near Calais (1802), Southey, Robert, 68, 74 Squire's Tale, Chaucer's, quoted, 41 Strange fits of passion have I known, Switzerland, 47 Tables Turned, The, 130; quoted, Tam o' Shanter defended, 49 THE END Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh. |