Borderers : a tragedy by Wordsworth composed in 1795-96.
... of their own genius, they fail inevitably. Dryden stumbling heavily through his rhymed plays, Wordsworth of all people, the least Elizabethan of poets, penning with a conscientious dullness his Borderers , Byron diffusing his elemental energy in bad blank verse and worse dramatic construction, Keats turning from his unfinished Hyperion to wild schoolboy imitations of the worst Page 81 ...
... praised is pure gold. Thus, it is impossible to agree with Keats when he remarked that The Excursion was one of the wonders of the age. Much less can we join Coleridge in that fantastic estimate of The Borderers, a play of Wordsworth: "His drama is absolutely wonderful. There are those profound touches of the human heart, which I find three or four times in The Robbers of Schiller and often in Shakespeare ...
... aspired for himself are now finally his; he is heir to primal Energy and overwhelming Light; he reads the book of the Overmind and he tingles with the rapture of the Oversoul: A borderer of the empire of the Sun, Attuned to the supernal harmonies, He linked creation to the Eternal's sphere. His finite parts approached their absolutes, His ...
... मर्यादा limit, boundary, frontier, border, verge; end, terminus; shore, bank; landmark; moral rule, propriety, decorum; contract, agreement. मर्यादिन् keeping in bounds.. neighbour, borderer. मारः killing, slaughter; death; evil one; Love; love; obstacle, hindrance; thorn apple. मारक killing, destroying. मारकः Kama; a destroyer; murderer; plague; hawk. मारणम् ...
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