ABSTRACT
But the object of this article is not so much to quote or to review, as to offer some observations on Mr. Wordsworth’s poetry, considered generally. This we have imperfectly done, with reference both to its merits and its defects. It is more easy to see and describe the latter than to do justice to the former. His errors are, in a great measure, to be traced to his system; and in reading his works we find, in every page almost, reason to join with Coleridge in saying of the author – ‘I reflect with delight how little a mere theory, though of his own workmanship, interferes with the processes of genuine imagination in a man of true poetic genius, who possesses, as Mr. Wordsworth, if ever man did, most assuredly does possess, ‘the vision and the faculty divine.’
