ABSTRACT
It will not be easily imagined that the peculiar quality, to which our countrymen have agreed in affixing the appellation of ‘Humour,’ can, under any form or modification, be attributed to Mr. Wordsworth; and, accordingly, in the only instance in which we are aware of his having attempted any thing like it, his failure is pre-eminent. In this respect, he is not to be compared with Cowper, whom in many other points he may be thought to resemble; for Cowper was, undoubtedly, gifted by nature with a very considerable portion of the talent to which we are now referring.
