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‘Carlyle has not put it too strongly in Heroes. It is chiefly a matter of environment with the really great men what shape they take in their power; but with smaller men, such as Wordsworth, I am not quite sure … What made me more sensitive to this is that I have just bought Wordsworth’s life in Jack’s 6d Home Series, and his colossal complacency makes one anxious. What a crowd they must have been—Wordsworth, Dorothy and Coleridge!’