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William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820).(Book Review)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20040922
Author:Butler, James A.

Robert Woof, ed. William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820)

(Routledge, 2001) xx + 1092 $295.00

A reviewer of Robert Woof's monumental William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage (Volume I: 1793-1820) may perhaps be forgiven for recalling the first sentence of the review of The Excursion in the New Monthly Magazine (September, 1814): "Mercy upon the reader, and still more upon the reviewer! For it seems this ponderous volume is only the prelude to two others of equal size, and similar materials." But it is the very comprehensiveness of Woof's book, ...

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