Excerpt from Sound and Motion in Wordsworth's Poetry Kubla Khan, with its seething turmoil and mazy motion. The poem is itself a strange wierd melody. Shelley's description in The Revolt of Islam of an eagle and a serpent wreathed in fight affords a remarkable ex ample of life and power, of dizzy speed and impetuous flight, of wheeling, floating, flut tering, leaping motion. Tennyson's reminis cence, in The Gardener's Daughter, of a certain May morning with all its sound is proof enough of his delight in melody. We know what joy even the memory of the thrush's song gave Browning, when, far from home, he thought of England in May time, when the white-throat builds and all the swallows! Every student knows the morn ing and evening sounds as enumerated by Mil ton in those companion poems, l'allegro and I1 Penseroso. Mrs. Browning's poetry is fairly vibrant with sound. I have in mind as I write some very beautiful lines in The Drama of Exile, suggestive of smooth-flow ing motion and soft, low sounds. 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.