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STRANGE FITS OF PASSION.(William Wordsworth's poetry)(Critical Essay)
Has there ever been a great poet as tempting to laugh at as William Wordsworth? The tradition of mocking him is as old as the tradition of revering him. In 1807, when Wordsworth published "Poems, in Two Volumes," the fashionable reviewers competed in the ingenuity of their scorn. Francis Jeffrey, the critical dictator of the Edinburgh Review, declared that "if the printing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste, we are afraid it cannot be insulted." Jeffrey remained the chief bane of Wordsworth's career--in 1814, his review of "The Excursion," a nine-thousand-line epic, began with an airy "This will never do"--but he was just one of many who ...
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- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Scrivener, Michael September 22, 2003 700+ words
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- Works of William Wordsworth: The Life Of William Wordsworth
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wordsworth, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
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- Wordsworth Variorum Archive.(archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth)
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Garrett, James M. June 22, 2005 700+ words
...text archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth. The WVA provides scholars...Volumes (1807) Poems, by William Wordsworth (in 2 vols, 1815) The White...1815. Poems, 1815 Poems by William Wordsworth: including Lyrical Ballads...
- Works of William Wordsworth: What Critics Have Thought Of The Work Of William...
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wordsworth, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
Wordsworth, William Monarch Notes 01-01-1963...Critics Have Thought Of The Work Of William Wordsworth Literary history is the story of the...last decades of the 18th century. Wordsworth was himself aware that he was representing...
- Our Will: A Presence That Disturbs.(criticism of William Wordsworth)(Critical...
- Magazine article from: ANQ SWINGLE, L. J. September 22, 2001 700+ words
...Tintern Abbey" 93-95) William Wordsworth's reputation seemed almost...Arthur Beatty's 1922 study William Wordsworth: His Doctrine and Art in Their...in that book was not to bury Wordsworth with tropical counterargument...
- Works of William Wordsworth: Lucy Gray
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wordsworth, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
...youth. Lucy Gray is, of course, in great degree William Wordsworth; she is poet too; or, better, she is what William Wordsworth would wish to be, a creature unbattered by the recognitions...
- J.H. Reynolds re-Echoes the Wordsworthian reputation: "Peter Bell," remaking...
- Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism Bates, Brian September 22, 2008 700+ words
...the business of parodying Wordsworth's poetry took off after the publication of Poems of William Wordsworth (1807)--his first major...largely at the x 807 Poems of William Wordsworth--and his footnotes--a...
- Works of William Wordsworth: Essay Questions and Bibliography
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Wordsworth, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
...interest in the narrative genre. Wordsworth was to show great skill in manipulating...narrative form. The characters in Wordsworth's narrative poems are quite...who, for all his existence as William Wordsworth-projected, has the mind and...