Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wordsworth
Wordsworth maintains that one impulse from a vernal wood can teach us more of man than the collected works of all the philosophers. Yet the vernal wood has, certainly, no didactic intentions. If the vernal wood be so instructive, manifestly the poet in a vernal mood, or any other mood, say autumnal, can teach us abundantly too, though, like the coppice in question, he has no set purpose of instruction. Thus Keats's Ode to Autumn inevitably begets moral ideas, ideas about life, just as much as le [diet Boy, or more. Great poetry, with or without a purpose, makes existence more vivid and real, brings us into more intimate contact and closer touch with existence, whether the poet approaches a practical conclusion or not.
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