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... ( Letter to Anna Seward , Sept. 1806 , Letters , I , p . 322. ) Another book which fired his imagination at the age of twelve was Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry , and in 1801 he wrote to the bishop that he could well remember ...
... ( Letter to Anna Seward , Sept. 1806 , Letters , I , p . 322. ) Another book which fired his imagination at the age of twelve was Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry , and in 1801 he wrote to the bishop that he could well remember ...
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... ( Letter to Rev. R. Polwhele , 27 Jan. 1804 , Letters , p . 207. ) 1 Another letter records his excitement when Southey brought him a fifteenth- century manuscript containing several romances in verse , a work which he at once bought for ...
... ( Letter to Rev. R. Polwhele , 27 Jan. 1804 , Letters , p . 207. ) 1 Another letter records his excitement when Southey brought him a fifteenth- century manuscript containing several romances in verse , a work which he at once bought for ...
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... letter of 19 March he wrote that he was still young , ' writing at random , straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness , without knowing the bearing of any one assertion of any one opinion ' . He was still , he ...
... letter of 19 March he wrote that he was still young , ' writing at random , straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness , without knowing the bearing of any one assertion of any one opinion ' . He was still , he ...
Contents
Contents Acknowledgements 6 | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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