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toward a balance of its qualities. The romantic art of Byron at- 

 tains this balance Avhen he writes of the sea. the Colisenm, the Lake 

 of Geneva. There, emotions are rendered consonant with Time 

 itself. Keats, on the other hand, attains the balance of his romantic 

 Cjualities most perfectly in a far land of enchanted poesy, where he 

 looks not on Nature and Time but from 



Magic casements; upeniiig on the foam 

 Of perilous sea< in fairy-lands forlorn. 



Shelley attains the quality I have in mind through a sort of rarifi- 

 cation of all its elements. He renders our feelings consonant to 

 nature only by etherializing them to suit a world self-created on 

 the clouds of his imagination. Of them all. AYordsworth 's is the 

 form of romantic art where the element of emotional wonder best 

 meets the beauty and strangeness of reality, finding there not a 

 fanciful explanation of itself, but a harmony with the world of 

 real facts and feelings. 



