Note 48 — TABLE I.
Reading edition
Lowell says, in his "Fable for Critics," that he is always discovering new depths
"in Wordsworth, undreamed of before,— That divinely inspired, wise, deep, tender, grand—bore."
Nothing could sum up this poet better than that. His intense delight in Nature and especially in mountain scenery, and his pure, serene, earnest, majestic reflectiveness are his great charms. His "Excursion" is one of the great works of our literature, and stands in the front rank of the world's philosophical poetry. Its thousand lines of blank verse roll through the soul like the stately music of a cathedral organ. (Eng., 19th cent.) See Table III. No. 13.