Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . defined form of expression; but that it is, and must LITERATURE. 793 1815] ever be, solely that mode of speech which, whether as regardsthe choice of words, or their arrangement, or both, is bestcalculated to heighten the pleasure which the reader derivesfrom the Hterary embodiment of the writers idea. Whether. AMLLIAJI WORDSWORTH, BY ROBERT HA>COCK. (National Portrait Gallery.) the words so chosen and so
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . defined form of expression; but that it is, and must LITERATURE. 793 1815] ever be, solely that mode of speech which, whether as regardsthe choice of words, or their arrangement, or both, is bestcalculated to heighten the pleasure which the reader derivesfrom the Hterary embodiment of the writers idea. Whether. AMLLIAJI WORDSWORTH, BY ROBERT HA>COCK. (National Portrait Gallery.) the words so chosen and so arranged do or do not heightenthis pleasure is a question not of poetic law, but of aestheticfact; and it is one to which no mans poetry supplies agreater variety of answers than does Wordsworths. When hesays to the leech gatherer: But where is it you live and whatis it you do ? he certainly does not succeed in heighteningwhatever pleasure we should derive from having the questionput in plain prose. W^hen, on the other hand, he compares theleech gatherers motionless figure at the tarn-side to a cloud Tliat liearetli not the loud winds when tliey call,Bat moveth altogether i£ it move at all, he as certainly does succeed. 794 ENGLANDS STIWGGLE FOB EXISTEDUE. [1802 Coleridges It is unnecessary to follow Coleridge through his elaborate Criticism, .^j^j overwhelniing exposure of this singular delusion. For thatexposure almost any one of his arguments would singly havesufficed. But his strong
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