William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… famously distanced himself from ‘the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime.’ 1 In coining the phrase, Keats initiated a tradition of regarding Wordsworth as a solitary, if not self-involved, poet. The poems for which he is best remembered, … local, national, and global vision of community: 5 . Jonathan Bate, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (New York, NY; London: Taylor & Francis Group, 1991) 6 . William Wordsworth, The Thirteen-book Prelude, ed. …
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