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Excerpt from Poems
The interest which Southey's poetry retains for the student of nineteenth-century literature is twofold first, it expresses the genius and character of an eminent individual; secondly, it is a portion of the romantic revival of his time. The best mode of approach to his writings is perhaps through his biography. When we become intimate with the man, we gain a friend worthy of honour and of love. We turn to his writings, and recognise his personality impressed on everything that he put forth. We find him in these writings with his eagerly acquisitive intellect, his skill as an arranger of all that he ac quired, his ambition for large designs, his capacity for intellectual and imaginative excitement, his acquired power of controlling that excitement, his genial temper, his passion of indignation against baseness and wrong doing, his mirthfulness, his seriousness, his loyalty of friendship, his household virtues, his patriotism, his lofty ideals, his moral.
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