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...life William Wordsworth touches only at rare intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the normally abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth...
Professor Charles H. Herford, one of England's most distinguished students of the history of literature is dead in London. He is best known for his "Age of Wordsworth", "Wordsworth, A Biography" and for his monumental work on Ben Jonson...
...Wordsworth, First of the Lake Poets." Professor Babbitt, Sever...
...Wordsworth," Professor Elion, Sever...
...name of the authors run a large gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...