Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poetical Works, Vol. 4
The chief purpose for which I have introduced this criticism here, is this, -that the reader may not look for what are thought the common ornaments or Spells of poetry: he must look for stem truths; for sublime senti ments; for a naked grandeur of imagery; for an absence of all the rhetorical ?ourishes of literary composition; for the dictates of a lofty and divine virtue; for a bold and gigantic dispersion of the veil from the delusions of human vanity; for the blaze of an Evil Spirit eclipsed by the splendour of a Good and Divine Spirit, illumined by the lamp of Heaven.
But though a great part of the poem is intellectual and argumentative, another large portion is full of grand or beautiful imagery: the description of the wilderness at the opening abounds with sublime scenery the picture of the storm at the close of the last book, with the bright morning which succeeded, may vie with any of the noblest passages in the 'paradise Lost: ' perhaps in expression, while it loses nothing of grandeur, it is more polished than any other to be found.
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