The Quarterly Review, Vol. 161

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Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 161: July and October, 1885Wordsworth, whose taste was austere in some directions and very free in others, .did not look with favour on the qualities to which Scott's poems owed their popularity, and without any nice consideration of its appropriateness, be classed them under a name that implied his own disa probation of the sgle. A stirring plot has always been hel to be a merit in ramatic poetry, which stands second in Wordsworth's list, and he saw no incongruity here in linking an exciting story to verse, or at least be omitted to make a distinction on that account between the varieties into which be divided the drama. It does not appear why a resource which is permitted to dramatic poetry should be forbidden to narrative when a story of some kind is common to both, and when human agents, dialogue, and all the materials which are ingredients in plots, enter into epics, metrical tales, and romances as well as into Plays. An addi tional interest in the story, kept within the limits which do not interfere with poetic r uirements, is one attraction the more, and in such a case to ca 1 a poem a 'metrical novel is simply a misnomer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.