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Poetry is autobiography for some writers, transposed memories of voyages both interior and across time's span. Think of Wordsworth, seemingly cursed with total recall, or Whitman with his barbaric yawps about Brooklyn and the Union dead. Or consider Virginia Hamilton Adair, whose Ants on the Melon (Random House; 158 pages; $21) may prove to be the year's finest volume of verse...
...these outbreaks of irrationalism? Because in a highly technological age, where not just production but now information and thought itself are being mechanized, the need for escape is powerful. The world is too much with us. William Wordsworth yearned "to be a pagan, suckled in a creed outworn." We're not immune. Indeed, an age in which we carry around 6-lb. boxes that can digitize information and rationalize thought at 133 MHz is an age even more susceptible to the call of the wild...
Apostle Gap, Saint Wordsworth...
That is because he began and remained throughout his writing life a brilliant practitioner of English prose and a hilarious debunker of received opinions. He influenced several generations of younger writers, among them some who abhorred his increasingly conservative views. England, to paraphrase Wordsworth, had need...
...event was sponsored by WordsWorth Books as part of a three-month reading series