Parables and Tales

'The finest new poem here is "The Blind Boy," which gives scope to all the poet's sympathies, by summoning the beloved beauties of visible nature round the ideal of a mysterious exclusion and isolation. Speaking of the aim alone, we may say that perhaps there is hardly in Wordsworth himself any single poem of equal length which from so central a stand-point interpenetrates the seen with the unseen, bounded always in a familiar circle of ideas.' -Fortnightly Review, [1880] 'The poem of the b...