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

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
What Critics Have Thought Of The Work Of William Wordsworth

Literary history is the story of the ebb and flow of different
sensibilities. The ingenious conceits of the metaphysical poets, for example,
were replaced by the majestic march of the heroic couplet. The military
regularity of the heroic couplet (see the poetry of Alexander Pope) was, for
another example, replaced by the fluidity of the blank verse of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge's Conversation Poems, and by the multifarious lyrical inventiveness
of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Romantic ...

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