ABSTRACT
Mr. Wordsworth is a writer whose system and practice of poetry are both so entirely his own, that in order to appreciate as fairly as we wish to do, the value of these volumes, it will be necessary for us to enter somewhat at length into a discussion of the theory of the art. His own theory of it
the author has given in the preface to a former work, published before this review existed; and as we do not perceive that his style of writing has since undergone any material alteration, we shall refer to it without scruple, as containing the principles upon which the poems immediately before us have been composed.
