Show COOPER aab 4 1 interview m the aged poet R n fen yen III death thomas cooper the tile veteran chartist n flo ft has received a grant of from the ovil list bad on one occasion a very verv interview ath wordsworth at ddll mount cooper had been nt at carlisle and started on a walk through abo luke lill 00 country it was on tho the third day after leaving C allio that cooper arrived at hydal rydal lake lie ile was very anxious to sec see wordsworth arid aut have lave a talk ta with alt him ala mla but not knowing the poet and having no introduction was wits rather doubtful as to what tho the nature of liis his reception might le be but 6 summoning um moning all the courage at liis big command he boldly strode up to thi the roe poets ts door and knocked in reply to an inquiry lie was told that wordsworth was at homo home so lie wrote on a slip of paper piper thomas cooper anthur of the purgatory of suicides deares desires to pay his devout regards tc tac wordsworth in a very few minutes he I vas was in the tile presence of the tile majestic old man and was bowing with deep and heartfelt homage when wordsworth Wordswort lY seized bis livi hand and welcomed him with such a hearty bearty how do 10 you do I 1 am very happy to atlee see you that cooper says the tears stood in liis his eyes for joy nothing struck cooper so much lu in Words woi ali s conversation as liis ills remark chartism after the subject of coopers copers imprisonment had been boiu hod lied upon you were right wordsworth said 1 I have always said the people were right in what they asked but bat yon you wont went I 1 hie lie wrong way to get it there is nothing unreasonable in yom t charter it is the foolish attempt at f physical force for which many of you have been blamable by and by tho the conversation drifted to other subjects there was but one occasion bay say cooper on which I 1 discerned the feeling of jea jealousy lonsy in him it was when I 1 mentioned byron if there thero were time ho he mid 1 I could show you how lord byron was not so great a poet as you think thin him tobe to be but never mind that now I 1 had bad just been classing liis his own 1 sonnets and childe harold together as the noblest poetry sinco since paradise lost but did not reassert what I 1 said 1 I am pleased to find ho he said while talking about byron that you preserve your muse cheste and free from rank and arid corrupt passion lord byron de graded poetry in that respect resie ct mens hearts are bad enough poetry should 2 refine and purify their natures not make them worse t Word opinion on tennyson is 3 interesting cooper asked tho the poet what his opinion was of the poetry of f ho he day there is little that can be called high poetry wordsworth said air ten affords tho the richest promise ho will do great things yet and ought to have done great things by this time his ills sense of music I 1 observed seems more perfect than that of any of the new race of poets yes wordsworth replied tho the perception of harmony lies in tho the very essence of the poeta poets nature and mr tennyson gives magnificent proofs that ho is endowed with it wordsworth spoke of southey in tho the highest terms and again reverted to politics there will bo be great changes cli anges on the continent he be said when the present king of the french dies but not while he lives the different gov will have to give constitutions to their people for knowledge is spreading and arid constitutional liberty is sure to follow wordsworth also alluded to the spread of freedom in england and c descanted des canted with animation on the tile growth of mechanics and similar institutions the people are sure to have the franchise el iLse he said with emphasis I 1 as knowledge increases but you will not get all 3 you ou seek at once and you must never seek rieck it again by physical force ho be added turning to me with a smile it will only make you longer about it pall mail mall gazette |