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Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808).(Book Review)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20040922
Author:Betz, Paul F.

Richard E. Matlak, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808)

(Univ. of Delaware Pr. 2003) 201pp. $43.50

With a dolorous but apt title, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont (1800-1808), which he has drawn from Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas" ("A deep distress hath humanised my Soul," line 36), Richard E. Matlak foreshadows his able and fascinating psycho-biographical account of a centrally formative period in the poet's life. Most readers of Wordsworth are aware of the painful shift in his ...

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