Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureTo mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". |
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... Wordsworth contemplated the fact and the nature of his own genius , and communicated his sense of these to others . But this need not mean that Wordsworth was self - deluded , that there was nothing to contemplate , or that what was ...
... Wordsworth contemplated the fact and the nature of his own genius , and communicated his sense of these to others . But this need not mean that Wordsworth was self - deluded , that there was nothing to contemplate , or that what was ...
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... Wordsworth's per- sonal happiness goes into his poems , as he asserted it did , if we begin by noticing , as many ... Wordsworth the man as he was known to his con- temporaries . This is Benjamin Haydon's account of how he took a cast of ...
... Wordsworth's per- sonal happiness goes into his poems , as he asserted it did , if we begin by noticing , as many ... Wordsworth the man as he was known to his con- temporaries . This is Benjamin Haydon's account of how he took a cast of ...
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... Wordsworth's earth . And indeed the praise of idleness , of idleness as a duty , should have prepared us : if the early Wordsworth is a Tory , he is a Tory anarchist . But all this was changed after the ' Ode to Duty ' . - Wordsworth's ...
... Wordsworth's earth . And indeed the praise of idleness , of idleness as a duty , should have prepared us : if the early Wordsworth is a Tory , he is a Tory anarchist . But all this was changed after the ' Ode to Duty ' . - Wordsworth's ...
Contents
Contents 1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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