162 Pages
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Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1960, this book studies Wordsworth’s ‘simple’ poems, such as the Lyrical Ballads , as products of a sophisticated and powerfully successful literary genius. The author aims to approach the poems as perhaps Wordsworth expected his first readers to; but as they have never been in fact. The result of this approach is to discover a Wordsworth far different to that which he has... Read more
Acknowledgements; Prologue; I. Wordsworth and Simplicity; II. Three Lyrical Ballads; Simon Lee The Idiot Boy The Thorn; III. Goslar Poems IV. Wordsworth and ‘Nature’ V. The Apotheosis of the Animal; Epilogue
Biography
John F. Danby
