Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 35 In will, in deed, Impulse of All to All Glory to Thee, Father of Earth and Heaven! In the preface to the Ode on the Departed Y ear (17 96) the poet asserts that the Ode commences with an address to the Divine Providence, that regulates into one vast harmony all the events of time, however calamitous some of them appear to mortals. Thus the principles of harmony, unity, and optimism, governed by the law of Necessity, furnish the chief intel lectual matter of these poems (17 94-17 They are all somewhat abstractly conceived, and their religion may be said to be a religion of opinion rather than of experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.