him plodding along the dusty highway; and that Byron's preternatural
force makes his passion seen by contrast pale and ineffectual. All
this and more may freely be granted, and yet for his influence upon
English thought, and especially upon the poetic thought of his country,
he must be named after Shakespeare and Milton. The intellectual value
of his work will endure; for leaving aside much valuable doctrine,
which from didactic excess fails as poetry, he has brought into the
world a new philosophy of Nature and has emphasised in a manner
distinctively his own the dignity of simple manhood.--_Pelham Edgar_.



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_Wordsworth_ by F. W. H. Myers, in _English Men of Letters_ series.
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited.

_Wordsworth_ by Walter Raleigh, London: Edward Arnold.

_Wordsworth_ by Rosaline Masson, in _The People's Books_ series.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack,

_Wordsworthiana_ edited by William Knight. Toronto: The Macmillan
Company of Canada, Limited.

_Essays Chiefly on Poetry_ by Aubrey de Vere, 2 volumes. Toronto: The
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_Literary Essays_ by Richard Holt Hutton. Toronto: The Macmillan
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