This work is an attempt to approach the poetry of the incomparable Wordsworth with a favorable disposition; to attempt to read it as he would have wished it to be read; and to find in it what he attempted to express. Raleigh takes the reader on a journey wherein we follow Wordsworth and watch him make his way along the precipitous edge which is the boundary of thought and his attainment of a clearer and truer view of life than is granted to most poets.