There seems to be a notion of a balanced palette here, that feels very picturesque (Lauren connected WW to Gilpin's ideas of the picturesque in her post for class). In 1794, William Gilpin makes this dinstinction:
between such objects as are beautiful, andsuch as are picturesque – between those, which please the eye in their natural state;
and those, which please from some quality, capable of being illustrated by painting.
What is this violence, then, that Wordsworth does to the inherent beauty of nature by making such a statement! "The chief DEFECT in the colouring of the Country of the Lakes is an over-prevalence of a BLUISH TINGE" ?!
