ABSTRACT
It appears to us that the great difference between Mr. Wordsworth’s plain and his ornamented manner is this: in the former, all is told as distinctly, and with as laboured a minuteness of explanation, as we should attempt in addressing a child on any subject that he could not otherwise understand; while, in the latter, the author, like all other poets, and with no originality but that of his thoughts, (the greatest and the best originality), addresses the cultivated imagination, and endeavours to awaken appropriate feelings and fancies by figurative words, which really mean much ‘more than meets the ear.’
