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...Dryden offered Virgil as a master of the heroic couplet: "Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,/ And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate." During the Victorian era, Aeneas emerged in the English of William Morris and other writers as a Romantic brooder well versed in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty. Fitzgerald's version, a century hence, may seem equally dated. But if translations capture the essence of their culture, then this Aeneid, in its supple beauty and clarity, is the best news this age has had in a long time...
...dictum: "Seek simplicity and distrust it." Still, both categories are noted not only for their concision but their consolation. Collectors of aphorisms may yet find support from the biblical proverb "Knowledge increaseth strength." As for the partisans of folk sayings, they can for once side with the fastidious William Wordsworth...
Down the block, the Paperback Book smith and Wordsworth also cater to the literate night owl--both stay open almost until midnight every night except Sunday, when they close at 11 p m Skip the Booksmith, however despite a 15 percent discount on hardcover books its stock is predominantly mass market schlock Wordsworth offers a more extensive and inspired collection as well as discounts on paperback and hardcover books Harvard Bookstore another evening favorite, features high quality new release in addition to its extensive collection of used textbooks and paperbacks...
...Englishness of English art. In his work even God is an Englishman. What other deity could have created those ripe interfolding fields, that mildly blowing air, that dewy sparkle on the face of a static world? Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what William Wordsworth did to it in verse: he threw out the allegorical fauna that had infested it since Milton and the rococo-nymphs, satyrs, dryads, Vergilian shepherds and Ovidian spring deities-and substituted Natural Vision for the Pathetic Fallacy...
Williamson redefines the modern world from an almost romantic point of view. The elegy "Dream Without End," puts into practice William Wordsworth's idea that beauty is even more vital when resurrected in the memory. And, like John Keats, Williamson sees life as a source of light...