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WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY WORDSWORTH AND TENNYSON By D. G. JAMES Read 7 June 1950 I THE 1950 , following are the facts which make it natural , in to bring together the names of Wordsworth and Tennyson . Wordsworth died in April ...
WARTON LECTURE ON ENGLISH POETRY WORDSWORTH AND TENNYSON By D. G. JAMES Read 7 June 1950 I THE 1950 , following are the facts which make it natural , in to bring together the names of Wordsworth and Tennyson . Wordsworth died in April ...
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If only a half of what Wordsworth says of the influence of Dorothy on him were true , it were enough to cause us ... extreme austerity of Wordsworth's mystical genius would have carried him , had he not come under her influence .
If only a half of what Wordsworth says of the influence of Dorothy on him were true , it were enough to cause us ... extreme austerity of Wordsworth's mystical genius would have carried him , had he not come under her influence .
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But this was not Wordsworth's way . And so far as Wordsworth is concerned , I have said that his poetry is haunted by figures of dereliction . Man is indeed small , lost , unknowing ; but in that smallness , lostness , and ignorance ...
But this was not Wordsworth's way . And so far as Wordsworth is concerned , I have said that his poetry is haunted by figures of dereliction . Man is indeed small , lost , unknowing ; but in that smallness , lostness , and ignorance ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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