Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-02-24 | Page 6 | Southey on Wordsworth

flonteny flon tey on of wordsworth southey writes in 1808 bays anrold 8 scott in the at alantic lantic he has written a masterly maa terly poem called the white doe ot hall or abo fate ot the noitong Nor tong the poem la incomparably fine it would amuse you to bear how he talks of bla own production ills entire and intense selfishness exceeds anything you could have conceived I 1 aca more amused at it than offended not being sufficiently attached to him to feel pain at perceiving hl faults and yet respecting him far too much on the average of bis to be disgusted it Is BO pure and unmixed a passion in him that ben I 1 jonson would have had him in a play lial he bea his contemporary