William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… they proceeded, and which sustain the whole. ( Prose I, 340) The individual, Wordsworth argues, is not only tied to his Burkean ‘platoon’, 7 he or she is also caught up in a nest of ‘concentric circles’ that connect them to the nation, and … not on the independence, but on the inter dependence of private and public concerns, of nature, man, and society. 7 . Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. L. G. Mitchell (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), …
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