The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-15

Died, on the 18th of January last, at Rydal
Mount Cumberland, England at the ripe age of
Lightweight years, MARY WoRpswoRrH. relict of
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, the poet. In this brief
announcement how many associations, connected
with past generation are mOmentarily revived.
Who that is acquainted with modern English
poetry, has not heard of the Cumberland Fells: of
keswick, and Ambeside, and Rydal Mount;
OF Rydal Water, and Lake Windermere; of ''the
Lake Poets, "-CoLERIDaE, SoUTHEY and WORDS
woRTH-and of that cluster of remarkable men,
with whom they were either intimately associated,
or by whom they were held up to scorn and ridi-
Guile? Of all those men of talent, or of genius
who made lusrous by their labors the first quarter
OF the present century, only Lord BRoUGHAM,
LEIGH Hunt; De QUINCY, the Opium Eater,
and WALTER SAVAGE LANDoR, now sur
vive Yet, what galaxy it was There was
CoLERIDGE, the poet the logician, the meta
physician, the dreamer, and the wonderful monol-
ogist-in early manhood an ardent Republican.
eager to establish, on this Continent, a Pantiso-
crazy, In which there should be neither kings nor
priests, and where the Golden Age should be
renewed-in later years a Tory in politics
and an Epscopalian in religion. There, too, was
ooUTHEY the poet historian, biographer, and
westminster Reviewer; who began life Radical
anu 4 rcc-tninAe,,
and the recognized champion of High Church
principles. He was a learned, ploddng and
methodical man, who divided each day into seq
ments, devoting so many hours to reading and
coahng; so many to prose, and SO many to
poetical winding up his diurnal labors
with the ever recurring glass of spirits and water.
The last of this triumvirate of poets was WORDS
WORTH hmself-a philosophical poet of high
order of genius, yet writer of lyrical ballads that
are filter for the nursery than the drawing-room
His whole life presents the picture of sturdy,
resolute student OF nature SO profoundly impressed
with the dignity of his calling, and with the con-
seriousness that in the end his merits would be
appreciated, as to be wholly unaffected in his pur
suits by the apathy with which his writings were,
for many years, received by the public Among
their friends and acquaintance, these SO called
Lake Poets" numbered CHARLES LAMB the pa
hent clerk the devoted brother the loving friend,
the acute dramatic critic and the quaintes and most
deiightful of English essayists. WILLIAM GoDwIN,
the author of remarkable work on political eco
homy, and OF the no less remarkable novel of Caleb
""e'o"s The bold, irascible and eccentric HAz-
lirr-a Donapartist, yet democrat of the deepest
dye-an artist of no mean ability, and one of the
most eloquent and suggestive Of dramatic critics.
TALFoURD, the author of Ion Sir WALTER Scorr.
JOHN WILSON, the Christopher North of Black
a000d's Magazine. ROGERS, the Banker Poet, and
the venerable WILLIAM LYLE BowLEs, the Sonnet
teer, whose daughter CAROLINE became the ca
cond wife Of SoUTHEy. At literary variance with
'the Lakers' were Lord BYRON; FRANCIS JErrRyv
the most trenchant of the Edinburg Reviewers:
SIDNEY Smith, the witty canon of st. Panls,
whose presence glori6ed a room like the sunshine
in which be SO much delighted a host of mi
nor writers, whose names the world has very
willingly let die. All these, the literary monarchs
of the last generation are gone a
sSceptre and crown h
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And in the dust equal laid 81
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