. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . he enrichment and elevation of , in his familiar diction, says: It is the fashionjust now to talk of Scott as if he were only a scenepainter or a stage mechanic. This is sheer nonsense. WORDSWORTH, THE POET OF NATURE. 599 In an age which knew nothing of history Scott madedead people live and move and have a being. In anae Avhich cared for history he made menwork out the traditions of four or five wrote better poetry than most people of his time,and the literature and thoug
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . he enrichment and elevation of , in his familiar diction, says: It is the fashionjust now to talk of Scott as if he were only a scenepainter or a stage mechanic. This is sheer nonsense. WORDSWORTH, THE POET OF NATURE. 599 In an age which knew nothing of history Scott madedead people live and move and have a being. In anae Avhich cared for history he made menwork out the traditions of four or five wrote better poetry than most people of his time,and the literature and thought of England, Franceand Germany are to-day vastly larger because hewrote novels. Fairbairn looks upon Waverly as a factor, not only in literature, but in not only powerfully influenced the romanticmovement in Europe as a whole, but he was pre-eminently the factor that determined the mental at-titude to the Middle Ages and to the mediaevalchurch of the Oxford men. The movement whichstands associated with the names of Pusey and New-man owes historically its origin to WORDSWORTH, THE POET OF NATURE. HILE Scott was making the brain of the world ring with the spiritedstrains of his romantic verse, another poet of his nation was reachingfar down into the human heart, and planting there a new love ofnature, its charms and inspirations. Before his time the form andlineaments of nature had been often depicted; he reached inwardfor its soul, its deep-lying spiritual significance, having, as Coleridgesays, the gift of imagination in the highest and strictest sense of the word. Inthis he stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespeare and Milton, and yetin a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own. William Wordsworth was born of old north-country stock, on April 7, 1770,at Cockermouth, on the Derwent, fairest of all rivers, in sight of the mountainsamong which his long and quiet life was to be passed. His first entry into thefield of poetry was in the closing deca
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