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He said meekly that such seemed to him unnatural, but they answered that nature had nothing to do with the question; that the artist saw things like that, and that whatever an artist saw no matter in what condition he may have been when he saw it that was art. They took him to Wagner festivals and Burne-Jones's private views. They read him all the minor poets.
My windows overlooked a valley, in the midst of which arose a village steeple; all was plain and calm. Spring, with its budding leaves and flowers, did not produce on me the sinister effect of which the poets speak, who find in the contrasts of life the mockery of death.
Prickett lent him such works as he selected and asked to take home with him. He spent whole nights in reading, and no longer desultorily. He read no more poetry, no more Lives of Poets.
The love of country in all the Italian poets and romancers of the long period of the national resurrection ennobled their art in a measure which criticism has not yet taken account of.
But almost all original poets, particularly poets who have invented an artistic style, are subject to one most disastrous habit the habit of writing imitations of themselves. Every now and then in the works of the noblest classical poets you will come upon passages which read like extracts from an American book of parodies. Swinburne, for example, when he wrote the couplet
By what transition he slid to his favourite subject I have no memory; but we had never been long together on the way before he was dealing, in a very military manner, with the English poets. "Shelley was a fine poet, sir, though a trifle atheistical in his opinions. His Queen Mab, sir, is quite an atheistical work. Scott, sir, is not so poetical a writer.
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing." "For to miss the joy is to miss all. In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse. To one who has not the secret of the lanterns the scene upon the links is meaningless.
It was the voice of Wyclif, denouncing these abuses, which made him famous and placed him in the van of reformers. These abuses were generally admitted and occasionally attacked by churchmen and laymen alike, even by the poets. They were too flagrant to be denied.
William's works include A History of Priestcraft , Rural Life in England , Visits to Remarkable Places, Homes and Haunts of the Poets, Land, Labour, and Gold , Rural Life in Germany, History of the Supernatural, and History of Discovery in Australia.
He discoursed with many people about their bards, surprising them by his intimate knowledge of the poets and the poetry of Wales. What Borrow writes about his Welsh is rather contradictory. Sometimes he represents himself as taken for a Welshman, at others as a foreigner speaking Welsh. He acknowledged that he could read Welsh with far more ease than he could speak it.
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