Lectures On The Influence Of Poetry And Wordsworth Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Lectures on the Influence of Poetry and Wordsworth But it appears to me, that in this age of Mechanics and Political Economy, when every heart seems dry as summer dust, what we want is, not so much, not half so much - light for the intellect, as dew upon the heart; time and leisure to cultivate the spirit that is within us. The author of Philip Van Artevelde, in his last published volume, The Eve of the Conquest, has well described this our state Of high physical civilization and refinement, in which knowledge is mistaken for wisdom, and all that belongs to man's physical comfort and temporal happiness is sedulously cared for, while much that belongs to our finer and purer being is neglected - an age of grim earnestness - not the noble earnestness of stern Puritanism for high principles, but one which is terrible only when the purse is touched. 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.