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...Connecticut College professor who recently discovered a handwritten William Wordsworth poem in the Houghton Library said Friday that he will not publish the work because of previous knowledge of the existence of the poem among academics...
Seng's decision not to publish the poem follows a letter from a Cornell English professor and editor of a series on Wordsworth "who said he had already handled and was aware of the poem," Seng explained...
Calling himself "a Shakespearean," Seng added that he will leave it up to the Cornell Wordsworth to include the poem in their series. "But the Cornell editors told me I could publish the poem if I wanted to," Seng said...
Seng had previously gotten written permission from Houghton to publish the poem. He would also have needed the approval of Wordsworth's trustees, a group of scholars and the poet's descendants, who govern scholarly access to the poet's works and his property in England...
...first to observe, painted "the landscape of every English mind." But the scenes were bereft of humans except for minuscule boatmen or field hands, toiling like ants in the distance. "The poor people are dirty," Constable explained, "and to approach one of the cottages is almost insufferable." Blythe groups Wordsworth with Constable in regarding the English countryside as Eden, polluted by the presence of inferior Eves and Adams. Even William Hazlitt, an essayist with a political conscience, thought rural England was full of louts. Pinched by poverty, exhausted by labor, "all country people hate each other," he maintained...