Sentence:  He is loved not so much because he is pre-eminently a poet, though that he is so is the main  fact about him, but because in his best-known poems there is displayed the humour and good sense of his countrymen, touched with ecstasy ; poetical rapture <WSD>fleshified</WSD>, or rather good solid bone and muscle rising to a spiritual exhilaration. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make or become flesh; to incarnate.