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Tag Archives: Wordsworth
No Collateral Interruption
“Coleridge has told me that he himself liked to compose in walking over uneven ground, or breaking through the straggling branches of a copse-wood; whereas Wordsworth always wrote (if he could) walking up and down a straight gravel-walk, or in … Continue reading
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LM Montgomery on Wordsworth
… as she re-read some of his stuff during World War I: “The classic calm and repose and beauty of his lines seemed to belong to another planet and to have as little to do with this world-welter as an … Continue reading