By William Golding, Harold Bloom
Serious essays at the works of the English Romantic poet.
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Personal 31 The maiden’s tears had made manifest her virtue. The poet’s turn for sentimentality found in Annette many an opportunity of satisfying itself, while the garrulity of the young Frenchwoman fell in splendidly with his intention of learning the language. All subsequent evidence agrees in representing Annette as obliging and generous. For economy’s sake, Wordsworth had decided on not incurring the expense of a teacher. Annette, then, was his tutor. She listened kindly to the stammered sentences of the foreigner.
He had found out that he could, at least, afford to be silent. Indeed, he spoke very little of anything. The conversation turned upon Milton, and I fancied I had opened a subject that would have “brought him out,” by remarking, that the most diabolical thing in all Paradise Lost was a feeling attributed to the angels. ” said Mr. Wordsworth, and inquired what it was. I said it was the passage in which the angels, when they observed Satan journeying through the empyrean, let down a set of steps out of heaven, on purpose to add to Personal 17 his misery—to his despair of ever being able to re-ascend them; they being angels in a state of bliss, and he a fallen spirit doomed to eternal punishment.
To Wordsworth, the lover of Annette, no doubt belong the ecstasies of the very young man who sees, not a mere woman of flesh and blood, but rather he knows not what blinding splendour: “. . He beheld a vision and adored the thing he saw,” a vision so dazzling that its very radiance renders it indistinct. It will be observed that his attitude of wonder is more in keeping with the youth’s sudden passion for the foreigner, than with Vaudracour’s long and tender love for his Julia, known from the cradle, beloved since she was a child, the constant companion of his games throughout his childhood.