Wordsworth

Wordsworth Synopsis

Excerpt from Wordsworth: An Anthology

F it be true that ancient literature concerned itself largely with Nature, and mediaeval with ideas of God, surely the literature of the modern world has neglected neither of these great subjects, but has united them with a third, the character of man, his origin, his present condition, and his future destiny. Again, while in the earlier periods man was a creature of the present and lived in the senses, and in the Middle Ages he was oblivious of the present and looked only to the securing of a peaceful future, now he considers the present in its relation to the future, and views life as one and continuous, having no abrupt changes or limitations.

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