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This book, the first important edition of Wordsworth since Matthew Arnold selected and edited the best of Wordsworth more than half a century ago, fills an important...
...world less likely to be moved by "one impulse from a vernal wood" than by a burst from a bazooka, Author Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) has seen fit to issue a new selection of the poems of William Wordsworth...
...WORDSWORTH ANTHOLOGY-Co//ec/-ec/ 6y Laurence Housman-Scrlbner...
...himself trying to reconcile the functions of priest and poet. Hopkins, one of the most influential ancestors of modern poetry, was a poet's poet. Few of his contemporaries saw his work; few would have appreciated it. In an era dominated by such orthodox craftsmen as Tennyson and Wordsworth, Hopkins' innovations were baffling even to his few admirers-"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts...
...most recent issue of Nature to reach the U.S., a fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. Vincent B. Wigglesworth, at long last pointed out that Wordsworth was a strange bedfellow for scientists' "self-esteem." In evidence, Dr. Wigglesworth cited other Wordsworthian lines...