Excerpt from The London Quarterly Review, Vol. 69: December, 1841-March, 1842 We are gl of the o ortunity afforded by Sonnets for compactness. In a long philoso the publication of the nets in a separate phical poem which must necessarily tax the volume to endeavour to do more justice to a powers of attention, a current and almost part than we found it possible to do to the colloquial manner was best fitted to keep the whole. Not that justice can be done to a reader at ease, and a continued terseness of part of Mr. Wordsworth's or of any great diction and condensation of thought, though writer's works without having reference to apparently abridging his labours, in reality the whole. Every portion of such a writer's would have cost him more than it saved him. Works has a value beyond its intrinsic worth, That the whole should be tlovgin x g(ymect as being part and lot of a great mind, and ed, so as to bq'hpgiq upbn eimmd with having correlations with every other part; the weight of none. Suehm, if more for the and whether it be from the unity of spirit interests of the suhjeet then that pointed and which is commonly found to pervade the striking should tfle'n 'dogur. It was works of a great writer, whatever may be his also perhaps expedient that the substance of variety of manner, or whether it be that what was to be saidijrr ih? Excursion should there is nothing he has written but must tell be eu ported by its 'own solidity and truth. 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.