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What sort of person would live in such a house? An 18th century person, in fact, but one whose mind spanned the entire century, adding the late 18th century expansiveness of Blake and Wordsworth to the wary constraints of Pope. The century that began in the Age of Reason ended in the Age of Romanticism, and the Constitution accommodated that severe transition. If the basic text is an Enlightenment document, the Bill of Rights is a homage to Romantic thought, challenging not so much the specifics of the basic Constitution as its earnest sense of permanence. Amendments did not promise...
...Johnson guilty of tokenism in going out of her way to include a Black woman writer among her discussions of Wordsworth and Moliere? Is her strategy one of disarming critics who might otherwise accuse her of "slumming"? Does she propose to set a professional example for all other "white critics," or merely provoke them out of their "whiteness...
...thousand saw I at a glance,/ Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." That was in 1804, when Poet William Wordsworth effused over daffodils in his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." The daffodil fields near Wordsworth's home have since been thinned by hungry sheep and marauding tourists. Now Britain's National Trust is considering planting hundreds of bulbs to restore the fields to their daffodil-rich condition...
...project comes amid a squabble over just where the daffodils originally bloomed. While tradition places them near Wordsworth's Lake District home in northwest England, a Yorkshire tourist board insists that the immortalized flowers actually grew some 85 miles away. That argument, however, has not taken root among Lake District officials, or at the National Trust...
...dead meat, you illiterate punk," said Wordsworth. The class moved, en masse, menacingly toward the cornered rocker-writer...