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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Michael

Wordsworth calls this "A Pastoral Poem." We should give more than passing
notice to the use of the word Pastoral in the subtitle. Wordsworth is
explicitly challenging the reader to compare "Michael" as a pastoral poem to
the conventional pastoral poems in English (and Greek) literature. The poet
is consciously, deliberately, devoutedly rejecting the Arcadians and other
artificial shepherds of 18th-century poetry and is presenting instead the
real shepherds of the Lake District in England. The assault against
established pastoral poetry is ...

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