...prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add suns/line to daylight by making the happy happier; to ter.ch the young and the gracious of every age to see, to...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous,' — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont,...

...brothers in the effort to make the happy happier, and the sad less miserable; and (in poet's words) " To teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." High is our calling, friends...

...feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends. . . . " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office ; which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we...

...feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends. . . . " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office ; which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we...

...whatever the prejudiced and worldly-minded might then say of them, their future destiny would be, " To console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and to feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous; this is their office, which...

...Immortality, and several of his Sonnets. He says of his own poetry that his purpose in writing it was " to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." His poetical work is the noble landmark of a great transition — both in thought...

...Arnold, quoting from a letter of Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, has said was Wordsworth's aim in poetry : " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to beqome more actively and securely virtuous : " might, with slight additions, be described as the object...

...deliver us — one which can have little in common with a poet whose mission, as he conceived it, was to " console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore become more actively and securely virtuous." The beautiful lines on the " Feast...

...the verdict of the Edinburgh was all but omnipotent—he replied : ' Trouble not yourself upon their present reception; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny!—to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach...

...dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception; of what moment is that compared...feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we...