ABSTRACT
In what may be considered as the tragic or serious poetry of their several works, Wordsworth may bear a comparison with Burke, but their eloquence is of different character: the imagery of Burke is more varied and dramatic, that of Wordsworth more intense and lyric: the one receives a coloured glare from his objects; the other reflects the pure light of his own mind. Only one short illustration can be given here. It is thus that W. deplores the convention of Cintra, and the reproach cast upon the country by it.
