CONTENTS. -Elevated Diction-The Reviewers-The Critics-Coleridge on Wordsworth-Crabbe-The Life of the Soul-Matthew the Schoolmaster-Peter Bell-The Youth from Georgia's Shore- Rob Roy The Pedlar-Womanhood-Village Solitudes-The ix CHAPTER VIII-THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE LIFE, Wordsworth's Estimate of Life, and of his own Poems-Words- worth a Gardener-His Picture of the Age-Pamphlet on Cintra -The Excursion-Lord Jeffrey-The Review in the Quarterly, by Charles Lamb-Revolutions in Literature-Unpolitical Ages- Wordsworth's Contemporaries-De Quincey-Robert Southey- Samuel Taylor Coleridge-Wordsworth not the Poet of Science- Goethe-Professor Wilson-Windermere-Charles Lamb-His Suppers-Wordsworth Poet Laureate-Wordsworth on Education -The Triad-The School of Wordsworth-The Close of the Life. 387 Ꭼ Ꭱ Ꭱ Ꭺ Ꭲ Ꭺ. For Pelagian, read Pelasgian, page 36, last line. For Jo, read Io, page 36. For haggy, read shaggy, page 120. For Temple, read Tempe, page 214, third line from foot. For observative, read observation, page 225, last line but one. CHAPTER I. THE GATEWAY OF LIFE. I can say but little about him, and insufficient at best. A man who could be resolved into words must be an every day man. The star heaven no star map paints, altho' painting may represent a landscape. This beloved spirit resembled the swans which in the harsh season of the year keep the waters open by their motion. Born as it were with a love potion of fervid passion for Nature, like a Brahmin, with the lofty Spinozism of the heart, he cherished and held fast to his heart, every animalculæ, and every blossom. He and Goethe are our restorers of singing Greece, whose Philomel tongue not all the powers of foregone centuries had been able to loose. He was a Fort overgrown with flowers. A Northern Oak whose branches were sensitive plants. JEAN PAUL RICHTER.-ON HERDER. A LIFE which has been of sufficient importance to be the subject of a Biography, is so from its having embodied to the world some principle-some central action or truth. There will ever be felt an interest-an intuitional curiosity to know the inner world of an eminent and celebrated man, and to compare it with his outer life. What were his habits and his inner resources? On what did he build his character? How far was he consistent. B |