attempted:--the pathetic
meaning is left to be suggested by the mere presentment of the
situation. A narrow criticism has often named this, which maybe called
the Homeric manner, superficial, from its apparent simple facility;
but first-rate excellence in it is in truth one of the least common
triumphs of Poetry.--This style should be compared with what is not
less perfect in its way, the searching out of inner feeling, the
expression of hidden meanings, the revelation of the heart of Nature
and of the Soul within the Soul,--the analytical method, in
short,--most completely represented by Wordsworth and by Shelley.

263 277 Wolfe resembled Keats, not only in his early death by
consumption and the fluent freshness of his poetical style, but in
beauty of character:--brave, tender, energetic, unselfish, modest. Is
it fanciful to find some reflex of these qualities in the _Burial_ and
_Mary_? Out of the abundance of the _heart_ ...

264 278 _correi_: covert on a hillside. _Cumber_: trouble.

265 250 This book has not a few poems of greater power and more
perfect execution than _Agnes_ and the extract which we have ventured
to make from the deep-hearted author's _Sad Thoughts_ (No. 224). But
none are more emphatically marked by the note of exquisiteness.

266 281 st. 3 _inch_: island.

270 283 From _Poetry for Children_ (1809), by Charles and
Mary Lamb. This tender and original little piece seems clearly to
reveal the work of that noble-minded and afflicted sister, who was at
once the happiness, the misery, and the life-long blessing of her
equally noble-minded brother.

278 289 This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an
exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank among
the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author.

289 300 _interlunar swoon_: interval of the moon's invisibility.

294 304 _Calpe_: Gibraltar. _Lofoden_: the Maelstrom whirlpool off the
N.W. coast of Norway.

295 305 This lovely poem refers here and there to a ballad by Hamilton
on the subject better treated in 163 and 164.

307 315 _Arcturi_: seemingly used for _northern stars_. _And wild
roses, &c._ Our language has perhaps no line modulated with more
subtle sweetness.

308 316 Coleridge describes this poem as the fragment of a
dream-vision,--perhaps, an opium-dream?--which composed itself in his
mind when fallen asleep after reading a few lines about 'the Khan
Kubla' in Purchas' _Pilgrimage_.

312 318 _Cer