...from the Hall, in whose kind Haunt The Hospitable Genius lingers still, To Where the broken Landskip, by Degrees, Ascending, roughens into rigid Hills; O'er which the Cambrian Mountains, like far Clouds That skirt the blue Horizon, dusky, rise. ('Spring', 11. 950-62) The opening lines define the...

...excursive roams — Wide-stretching from the Hall in whose kind haunt The hospitable Genius lingers still, To where the broken landscape, by degrees Ascending,...hills O'er which the Cambrian mountains, like far clouds That skirt the blue horizon, dusky rise.21 I should like to emphasize just two aspects of this...