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James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
now chiefly for the insight it gives us into Wordsworth's mind. Among other things he said, that it It would be instructive to know what were Wordsworth's studies during his winter in Goslar. De Q edition in 1802, and to a third in 1805. Wordsworth found (as other original minds have since dorently unable to see. To this second edition Wordsworth prefixed an argumentative Preface, in which by the logic and learning of his prose; but Wordsworth carried to the reform of poetry all that fer-founded faith in himself. To this Defensio Wordsworth afterward added a supplement, and the two fo moreover guilty of the same fault for which Wordsworth condemned Dr. Johnson's famous parody on theduring a part of this excursion, of which Miss Wordsworth kept a full diary. In Scotland he made tticularly Byron, among whose verses a bit of Wordsworth showed as incongruously as a sacred vestment. Crabb Robinson is reported as saying that Wordsworth was indignant at the Edinburgh Review's atta[16 more...]