Transactions Of The Wordsworth Society Classic Reprint

Author : Wordsworth Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334505997
Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, 1882, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Wordsworth Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, 1882, Vol. 2 In vol. P. 189, of the Memoir, we find the passage: In the cottage of Town - end, one afternoon in 1801, my sister read 'me the sonnets of Milton. I had long been well acquainted with them, but I was particularly struck on that occasion with the dignified simplicity and majestic harmony that ran through most of them - ia character so totally different from the Italian, and still more from Shakspeare's fine sonnets. I took fire, if I may be allowed to say so, and produced three sonnets the same afternoon, the first I ever wrote, except an irregular one at school. Of these three, the only one I distinctly remember is, I grieved for Buona parte, ' etc. One of the others was never written down the third, which was, I believe, preserved, I cannot particularise. It might be supposed from this that this sonnet would be strictly in the Miltonian form, whereas it is the only one in the first part of the political Sonnets, where it is now placed, that deviates from it, and the series numbers 26. But all the changes from the Miltonian form, except the two before named, are merely in detail, not in principle; and we may therefore fairly suppose that Wordsworth con sidered that dignified simplicity and majestic harmony might be preserved so long as he kept to the principle on which Milton's sonnets were written, and of this, the longer he lived, the more he was convinced. Milton's published sonnets number only 18, whereas \vordsworth's are nearly 500. To have adhered strictly to two rhymes only in eight lines, throughout this large number, would have been a task of immense difficulty, and to have attempted it would have greatly restricted the freedom of the poet's pen, and many passages of exceeding beauty could never have been written had a servile adherence to the Miltonian form been closely observed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.