... his greatest poems can be traced directly to thisatmosphere of books, and their constant use and reference in his childhood. Literature and life, are, indeed, soabsolutely interpenetrated and ... there. By this act he forfeited all the estate designed forhim, and returned to England to face privation and to make his own way. He, too, became a clerk in the Bankof England, and in 1811, ... devotion to each other and to their son, their reverence for their art, and their lofty and noble spirituality of nature, all united to produce this exquisite and unrivaled romance of life, "A...