...etc. Cf. Wordsworth's account (Letter to Lady Beaumont, May 1807) of the purpose of his poetry : " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." ADMONITION. INTRODUCTION. COMPOSED in 1806, and first published in 1807. Wordsworth gave it the heading...

...Muse " was not dependent on the public journals. " Trouble not yourself," he wrote to Lady Beaumont, " upon their present reception ; of what moment is that...their destiny ? — to console the afflicted ; to add 1 The earlier proofs were sent to the printer from Grasmere. sunshine to daylight by making the happy...

...striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society," adding that the mission of poetry is "to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous." I am, however, rather disposed to think that the age in which we live is one that has a very genuine...

...teacher is, he reminds us, "to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making 5—2 the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious...think and feel, and therefore to become more actively virtuous." Tennyson, too, will have a new interest when he is recognised as a suggestive and inspiring...

...whose foundation you (W) have built, as a Christian poet, the noble structure of your worksl" sole the afflicted, to add sunshine to day-light by making the happy happier; to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely...

...Wordsworth's mind the prime function of the artist. The destiny that he hoped for his own poems was ' to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ' . Letter to Lady Beaumont, May 21, 1807. PAGE 267. To the Daisy : cf. Wordsworth's note to To the...

...like the best and happiest, the most typical, men. The destiny of his poems, declares Wordsworth, is ' to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous.' 2 Or, what amounts to the same thing, the end of his poetry, as of all good poetry, is to arouse, and...

...which all great teachers feel, as when Wordsworth writes of his poems : " I trust their destiny is to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight...by making the happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and more securely...

...console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and more securely virtuous. ' ' Sometimes, as in this case or in the case of Watts and Morris, the joy...

...and he holds himself as responsible for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier j to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become...