William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… 2 The linguistic and sociological ‘experiments’ ( Prose I, 116) that he conducts in Lyrical Ballads give expression to his social awareness, with a number of poems exposing the devastating effects on rural communities of … Wordsworth, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), vol.1. Wordsworth’s friendship with Coleridge runs deeper than literary collaboration, in that it fashioned … Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse, ed. Beth Darlington (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1977), MS. D, ll.754, p.101. Wordsworth had spent his childhood in the Lake District, and his native region …
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