William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Benjamin Robert Haydon, ‘William Wordsworth’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG 1857, 1842. Image Portrait of William Wordsworth by William Shuter, 1798. Cornell University Library. Résumé The literary career of William … relentlessly excoriated Wordsworth in his reviews over his singular style and choice of themes. Even the more flattering portrait (pictured above) by Benjamin Haydon depicts him as a man absorbed in his own musings. Wordsworth’s …
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