[The Prose Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of William Wordsworth PREFACE 21/1026
It has all the Author's characteristics of deep thinking, imaginative illustration, intense conviction and realness.
Again, accept or dissent, this State Paper (so to say) is specially Wordsworthian. It seems only due to WORDSWORTH to bear in recollection that, herein and elsewhere, he led the way in indicating CO-OPERATION as _the_ remedy for the defects and conflicts in the relations between our capitalists and their operatives, or capital and labour (see the second section of the Postscript, and remember its date--1835). II.
_Advice to the Young_. (_a_) Letter to the Editor of 'The Friend,' signed Mathetes. (_b_) Answer to the Letter of Mathetes, 1809. 'Mathetes' proved to be Professor JOHN WILSON, 'eminent in the various departments of poetry, philosophy, and criticism' ('Memoirs,' i.
423), and here probably was the commencement of the long friendship between him and WORDSWORTH.
As a student of WILSON'S, the Editor remembers vividly how the 'old man eloquent' used to kindle into enthusiasm the entire class as he worked into his extraordinary lectures quotations from the 'Excursion' and 'Sonnets' and 'Poems of the Imagination.' Among the letters (vol.iii.p.
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