ABSTRACT
I read the last number of the Quarterly Review.1 An article on Wordsworth’s White Doe I thought judicious. One remark sufficiently accounts for the unpopularity of Wordsworth. He himself says in vindication of his style that a poet to touch the reader must speak as he speaks, and the reviewer remarks, much more then must he feel as his reader feels. While therefore Wordsworth is excited by objects which excite no other
