Wordsworth's PoetsDuncan Wu A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in The Prelude. |
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... Milton , and Spenser ' . These ' portions ' , presumably memorised prior to Wordsworth's departure for Hawkshead Grammar School in 1779 , were probably taken from such children's anthologies as Enfield's Speaker and Knox's Elegant ...
... Milton , and Spenser ' . These ' portions ' , presumably memorised prior to Wordsworth's departure for Hawkshead Grammar School in 1779 , were probably taken from such children's anthologies as Enfield's Speaker and Knox's Elegant ...
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Duncan Wu. John Milton , Paradise Regained Book IV ( extract ) Date of reading : by 1789 In Book III of The Prelude Wordsworth recalls his love of Milton's poetry while at Cambridge , envisioning the undergraduate Milton : Yea , our ...
Duncan Wu. John Milton , Paradise Regained Book IV ( extract ) Date of reading : by 1789 In Book III of The Prelude Wordsworth recalls his love of Milton's poetry while at Cambridge , envisioning the undergraduate Milton : Yea , our ...
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Duncan Wu. John Milton , When the Assault was intended to the City , To the Lord General Fairfax , To the Lord General Cromwell , On the Late Massacre in Piemont , On his blindness , To Cyriac Skinner Date of reading : 21 May 1802 Milton's ...
Duncan Wu. John Milton , When the Assault was intended to the City , To the Lord General Fairfax , To the Lord General Cromwell , On the Late Massacre in Piemont , On his blindness , To Cyriac Skinner Date of reading : 21 May 1802 Milton's ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Elizabeth Carter Ode to Spring 1756 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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