"Modern poetry, in English, is the invention of Blake and of Wordsworth, and I do not know of a long poem written in English since which is either as legitimately difficult or as rewardingly profound as Jerusalem or The Prelude. Nor can I find a modern lyric, however happily ignorant its writer, which develops beyond or surmounts it debt to Wordsworth's great trinity of Tintern Abbey, Resolution and Independence and the Imitations of Immortality ode. The dreadful paradox of Wordsworth's greatness is that his uncanny originality, still the most astonishing break with tradition in the language, has been so influential that we have lost sight of its audacity and arbitrariness" (7).From Harold Bloom's The Internalization of Quest-Romance.
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