worth’s poetry as both poetic and articulate masterpieces, for his works are like a fine piece of art.“Genius is not a creator, in the sense of fancying or feigning what does not exist. Its distinction is, to discern more of truth than common minds. It sees under disguises and humble forms everlasting beauty. This it is the prerogative of Wordsworth to discern and reveal in the walks of life, in the common human heart. He has revealed the loveliness of the primitive which pervades his poetry is that the beautiful is not confined-the rare, the new, the distant,-to scenery and modes of life open only to the few; gleams from the loneliest flower, that it lights up the humblest sphere, that and loveliness in lives which few eyes rest on, -that, even in the absence of intellectual culture, the domestic relations can quietly nourish that disinterestedness which is element of all greatness, and without which intellectual power is splendid deformity. Wordsworth is poet of humanity; he teaches reverence for our universal nature; he breaks down the fictitious barriers between human hearts.”(Tucker, 197)William Ellery Channing, 1841, The Present Age, AddressesChanning calls Wordsworth a genius, in the sense that Wordsworth creates everlasting beauty with his poetry. That in the poems, the essence of human existence and the door to the human heart is opened. Wordsworth’s works are able to many diverse things; it can give life to the loneliest flower, to give love to the people that no one cares about. Channing speaks that Wordsworth’s works are poems of humanity; he is able to win the reverence of our hearts and universe, and break down barriers between human hearts.Bagehot, regards the works of Wordsworth as exciting and innovative to read, he enjoys them like fine classical art.SONNETS“To Wordsworth has been vouchsafed the last grace of the self-denying artist: you think neither of him nor his style, but...
