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...your reading. I don't suggest anything like a set list, or 'planned reading'; one's instinct rightly rebels against such regimentation . . . But there are all kinds of excitement and adventure to be had from associative reading. I have never thought very much of Wordsworth as a poet, or found him a man attractive in himself...
...likeable figure in his circle seemed to be his sister Dorothy . . . So, recently, I at last got hold of Professor de Selincourt's fine edition of her Journals. They led me to his life of Dorothy Wordsworth, to Margoliouth's Wordsworth and Coleridge, back with a new eye to Hazlitt's My First Acquaintance with Poets, to De Quincey . . . The advantage of reading of this kind is that it takes you through life continually opening up new vistas of old country, slowly filling in a pattern of memories and emotions and associations such as no strictly formalized...
...absolutely filthy." Continuous rains drenched the country lanes of England and the sidewalk cafes of Paris. In mid-August, temperatures dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season (the worst, climatically speaking, in 78 years) as "l'été pourri"-the decayed summer...
...Wordsworth had previously replaced Davison in 1934 as University organist and Glee Club conductor...
...Sutherland is best known for such tortured canvases as his Thorn Trees (opposite), which combines the cruelty and immediacy of Picasso's World War II paintings with a peculiarly British and romantic feeling for landscape. It looks like what Wordsworth might have written if Wordsworth had swallowed a lemon...