Was dukedom large enough."

The suggestions from great minds disclose vistas that we might never
otherwise see. Browning truly says:--

"...we're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred tunes nor cared to see."

Sometimes it is only after reading Shakespeare that we can see--

"...winking Mary buds begin
To ope their golden eyes.
With everything that pretty is."

and only after spending some time in Wordsworth's company that the
common objects of our daily life become invested with--

"The glory and the freshness of a dream."

In the third place, we should emphasize the fact that one great
function of English literature is to bring deliverance to souls weary
with routine, despondent, or suffering the stroke of some affliction.
In order to transfigure the everyday duties of life, there is need of
imagination, of a vision such as the poets give. Without such a vision
the tasks of life are drudgery. The dramas of the poets bring relief
and incite to nobler action.

"The soul hath need of prophet and redeemer.
Her outstretched wings against her prisoning bars