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... Wordsworth's work as a poet . As Wordsworth makes clear , he was led on from his delight in nature to a sympathy for men . He wrote : When I began to enquire , To watch and question those I met , and speak Without reserve to them , the ...
... Wordsworth's work as a poet . As Wordsworth makes clear , he was led on from his delight in nature to a sympathy for men . He wrote : When I began to enquire , To watch and question those I met , and speak Without reserve to them , the ...
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... Wordsworth was recording the agricultural changes of his time , and the worsening conditions of the peasantry which accompanied the agricultural revolution . But this is not to see matter in correct perspective . It is true that much of ...
... Wordsworth was recording the agricultural changes of his time , and the worsening conditions of the peasantry which accompanied the agricultural revolution . But this is not to see matter in correct perspective . It is true that much of ...
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... Wordsworth's poem which offended him , for Constable was interested only in naturalistic observation . A book about which he had no such reservations was Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne . Also he was alienated by Wordsworth's ...
... Wordsworth's poem which offended him , for Constable was interested only in naturalistic observation . A book about which he had no such reservations was Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne . Also he was alienated by Wordsworth's ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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