Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate

Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2020-03-06T17:00:00+00:00

EXCURSION

The downfall of the French school of poetry has of late been increasing in rapidity; its cold and artificial compositions have given way, like so many fantastic figures of snow; and imagination breathes again in a more green and genial time … This has undoubtedly been owing, in the first instance, to the political convulsions of the world, which shook up the minds of men, and rendered them too active and speculative to be satisfied with their common-places. A second cause was the revived inclination for our older and great school of poetry, chiefly produced, I have no doubt, by the commentators on Shakspeare, though they were certainly not aware what fine countries they were laying open. The third, and not the least, was the accession of a new school of poetry itself, of which Wordsworth has justly the reputation of being the most prominent ornament, but whose inner priest of the temple perhaps was Coleridge.

(Leigh Hunt, Preface to Foliage; or Poems original and translated, 1818)

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