“I am condemned for the very thing for which I ought to have been praised;viz.，that I have not written down to the level of superficial observers and unthinking minds.—Every Great poet is a Teacher:I wish either to be considered as a Teacher,or as nothing.”
Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont，1808.
“Not that he［Wordsworth］did wrong to think himself a great teacher:he was a teacher no less beneficent than great;but he was wrong in thinking himself a poet because he was a teacher,whereas in fact he was a teacher because he was a poet.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne，“Wordsworth and Byron，”1884.