A Solemn and Unsexual Man
Colin Burrow: Parson Wordsworth, 4 July 2019
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years
by Nicholas Roe.
Oxford, 352 pp., £25, November 2018,978 0 19 881811 3 Show More
by Nicholas Roe.
Oxford, 352 pp., £25, November 2018,
Wordsworth’s Fun
by Matthew Bevis.
Chicago, 264 pp., £22, September 2019,978 0 226 65219 1 Show More
by Matthew Bevis.
Chicago, 264 pp., £22, September 2019,
“... for half a day just doing whatever it is that poets do when they sit on stones. His ‘good friend Matthew’ asks what exactly that might be, and Wordsworth’s reply, if you read it sceptically, isn’t much of a reply at all: The eye – it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where’er they be, Against, or with our ... ”