...be living at this hour: Vngland hath need of thce : she is a fen О stagnant waters: altar, »word, and pen, Fireside, the heroic Wealth of hall and bower....forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Weareselfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again: And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power....

...TO MILTON. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: Fngland hath need of thee : she is a fen О stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen. Fireside,...heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancieut English dower Of in ward happiness. Weareselfeh men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again;...

...England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, th' heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. AVe are selfish men ; 0, raise us up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue, freedom power....

...great part of liberatress of the world, which ho predicted she was to play. He fondly complained that altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth...their ancient English dower , Of inward happiness. If cach single word of this complaint be well meditated, it opens all the characteristic glories of...

...and to duty as a guiding principle. Earlier lines in the same sonnet make Wordsworth's values clear: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men (3-6) This vision transforms the turmoil of a seventeenth-century revolution into a glorified picture...

...London, 1802 40 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: (1. 1-2) 41 ' P ЬrH T ! xL S ث <} _ ,B 8 hEܴ5: &l M *z dwelt apart. (1. 8—9) 42 So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet...

..."London, 1802": Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. It was the cry of the Romantie conservative. 74 It is crucial to observe that whatever the standing...

...already broken: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Even if such poems are more than the ' declamatory claptrap '* which Leavis dismissed them as being,...

...WORDSWORTH Milton Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul was like a...

...revolutionary epic poet: Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee . . . We are selfish men: Oh Raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power If I have commented on these novels briefly it is with a view to underlining the shift of perspective...