xt7qjq0stw34_4325 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection William Wordsworth letter to T. Hamilton, with a clipping describing Wordsworth text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. William Wordsworth letter to T. Hamilton, with a clipping describing Wordsworth 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_42/Folder_71/Multipage14711.pdf undated 
  Scope and Contents
  
Peal accession no. 13079a.
 section false xt7qjq0stw34_4325 xt7qjq0stw34  

 

      
 

W0rrls-inertia—:Vl'r. \Vordsworth, in his person, is about
the middle size, with marked features, and an air somewhat stately
and Quixotic. He reminds one of some of Holbein’s heads, grave,
saturnine, with a slight indication of sly humour, kept under by ~
the manners of the age or by the pretensions of the person. He
has a peculiar sweetness in his smile, and great depth and manliness
and a rugged harmony in the tones of his voice. His manner of
readingr his own poetry is particularly imposing: and in his fa-
vourite passages his eye beams with preternatural lustre, and the
meaning,r labours slowly up from his swelling,r breast. No one who
has seen him at these moments could go away with an impression
that he was a ‘man of no mark or likelihood.’ Perhaps the com—
ment of his face and voice is necessary to convey a full idea of his
poetry. His language may not be intelligible, but his manner is
not to be mistaken. It is clear that he is either mad or ins; red.
in company, even in a téze—u—Ie’le. Mr. \Vordsworth is often silent,
indolent, and reserved. If he is become verbose and oracular of
late years, he was not so in his better days. He threw out a bold
or an indifferent remark without either effort or pretension, and re-
lapsed into musing,r again. He shone most (because he seemed most
roused and animated) in reciting his own poetry, or in talkingabout
it. He sometimes gave striking views of his feelings and trains of
association in composing certain passagres; or if one did notalway:
understand his distinctions, still there was no want of interest—
there was a latent meaning; worth ll'l( uiring: into, like a Vein of ore
that one cannot exactly hit upon at too. moment, but of which there
are sure indications. liis standard of poetry is high and severe,
almost to exelusiveness. lleadoiits of‘nothing below, scarcely of
anything above, himselr”.-'1'/zw .S'pirits of [I'm jig'l’.