Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preceded it. As for the future, his firm faith was that it would be better than the present. Utterances of Carlyle, George Eliot, and many other writers show with what delight his pure hopeful philosophy was welcomed by the intellectual world. He had many traits in common with Wordsworth; but he was a much broader man. He taught the nineteeeth century to hope, and for this lesson we cannot be too thankful...
ENGLISH. 1. A critical estimate of Lord Macaulay's writings. 2. The relation of Wordsworth's poems to his life. 3. The Fantastic Element in Hawthorne's characters and plots. 4. What is the Function of Literature in Modern Life...
...will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept as the basis of Harvard poetry. But what are the poets? Of course we have execrable rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some...
...ground which he has taken, but in a course which is so given up to independent research and individual work as English VIII, the criticism must be considered as slightly hypercritical. If Byron was a brute, we want to know it just as distinctly as to know whether Wordsworth was after all a wingless angel. Yet, it is true that the rehearsal of personal memories at times grows to be tiresome garrulity. If some golden mean could be found some way by which we could all study that portion of a writer's life and works which would exactly meet...
...year examination in English 8 will comprehend the works of Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Southey and Scott...